Lucille Madeira Research Paper

Emily Madeira
Mrs. Deb Moyer Madeira pg. 1
English Interview Essay
October 15

1.
Me
Hello, my name is Lucille Beatrice Fuhrman. I was born January 6, 1944 in Vryn Mawr Pennsylvania to Francis Hilldibidle Fuhrman and Virginia Fellimino Pettrecelli. My father was a worker in the local shipyard, and my mother was a nurse. I don’t really remember anything about Vryn Mawr because I moved from there to Kempton when I was 3 years old. All I remember specifically about Vryn Mawr was that when there was a very big refrigerator in the corner of the moving truck. 2. My Childhood My father was a very fun-loving dad. Some of the things that I remember doing with him was that, he would take his big army truck up to the back roads, and he would hook our sleigh up to the truck and the hook up some toboggans, and he would drive “very quickly” while my brothers Richard and Mickey where in the toboggans and I was in the sleigh. One of our favorite things to do with him was take our big truck up to, the mountain and drive really fast on the trails with us kids in the trunk. We would always drive at such an angle, and speed that our feet would almost never be touching the ground, we would be hanging on for dear life, hoping our arms would hold.

Elementary School Madeira pg. 2
There was one thing that was important to most of the students at my school. That was to be able to go down to a farmhouse and get some of their water since there was no running water. My school was just like the “Little House on the Prairie schoolhouse" as you might call it. It had everything that we ever needed. It had a pot-bellied stove that we would put our wet shoes by when we came in from recess so they’d dry. It was a typical one-room public school house. The one thing I loved about my school was once every week a lady would come to school and teach a bible lesson and lead students to Christ, and every week you could count on my hand being raised, “since I sinned that week I need to become a child of God all over again.”
One of the big childhood mysteries for me was how did Santa make it to our school every year at the exact same time and day? I later found out that it was my dad who played the mystery Santa. He would bring humongous Hershey chocolate bars, and ginormous fresh oranges to all the good kids. He was so popular there that even the parents would come to see him. They were in such a rush to see him that one time I even got pushed down to ground just so they could see “Santa”.

3. Older Years
In 7th grade I moved to a new Pennsylvania Dutch school because I was so ahead and advance at my old schoolhouse. I really liked coming to school everyday because the teacher always called me her model student. She would always tell the Pennsylvania Dutch students that they should try to talk like me, because I talked so well compared to them even though I had an Italian accent myself. Then after that I went to high school in Kutztown. I met my husband there in a 9th grade English class. I originally didn’t want to meet him because he was annoying and was always trying to get my attention. Once he threw an eraser at the teacher and missed, and then he got in trouble for it, all because he was trying to get my attention.

I started to like him after he would write me nice notes saying that I was pretty and all that, but the problem was, I wasn’t aloud to court until I was in 12th grade. He really had changed from 9th -12th grade. My mother actually took him with her to a Billy Graham conference and that is where he became a devout Christian and decided he wanted to become a preacher. Later we started dating. I graduated from high school in 1961 and decided I was going to go to Kutztown University to be an artist. My brother then later convinced me to got to a University in Illinois to become a teacher, which I didn’t want to be then. 4. My New Life
I finally got married to the love of my life Dennis Madeira in my last year of college. Lucille Beatrice Madeira…. has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? I then had my first child Michael Thomas Madeira 11 months later. My husband actually preached his first sermon the day Michael was born while I was in labor; luckily he made it in plenty of time. Timothy Scott Madeira was born 15 months after Michael, and then David James Madeira was born 15 months after Timothy. They were all a very close group of brothers and best friends. We actually started our first church after David was born. Then finally the baby of the family and the boy’s precious little sister Denise Virginia Madeira was born. Madeira pg. 3

5.
My Family
My husband and I started a radio program called Life in Jesus and it aired every Sunday morning. It was a back and forth talk shows were Dennis and I would share about Jesus and just talk through different spiritual situations for all to hear. We would also sing together, and later Michael, Timothy, David, and then finally Denise would all sing with us. And the children became known as the Madeira Family Gospel Singers. We would all go and sing in the lions club and places like that, the children would sing and my husband and I would preach. That is actually where the boys got started with preaching in public.

6. Present Day
Now my children are all out on there own. Michael became a lawyer, and a radio personality, Timothy a radio show host and radio station manager, David became a chiropractor, political candidate, and radio personality, and Denise became a music teacher, songwriter, and radio personality. Dennis and I are attending our church that we originally founded that has been up and running for over 30 years. We also have a private business called Maximize Life, where we do counseling, seminars, and preaching wherever is needed. Overall God has been really good to me and I’m so very thankful for all he has given and blessed me with.

Madeira pg. 4