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Janetta is an extremely warm, upbeat and accomplished Wild Cheetah Runner. She was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Barbados in the West Indies. Her mom was an American and her dad was Bajan. She spent her childhood on a sugar plantation and went to the same Catholic Grade School until 8th grade. She came to the US to attend boarding school as a freshman. After graduating from high school, she started college at Tulane and finished at San Francisco State. She went to Medical School at US Davis and went to the University of Kansas for her OB/Gyn Residency. She met her husband the last year of that residency. She was in private practice in Overland Park, Kansas for 25 years and then worked in Seattle for 3 more years before moving to Pensacola. She worked briefly at Sacred Heart and then retired in June. She and her husband have 2 children: Justin, 25, who is working as a computer engineer in Denver and Katie, 23, who is completing a BFA in Art History and Painting at KCAI in May.