“By the time I was 9, I could speak it pretty good.” She spoke only her native Mikasuki language as a child, “but I picked up English in school and just being around people who spoke it,” she recalled. “I want to dedicate this honor to my parents (Bobby and Annie Henry) because they were always there for me with their love and support,” she said at a gathering of family, friends and co-workers who filled the back of the Frontier Steak House on June 21 to celebrate the accomplishment of Linda, a popular Tampa senior crafts person and stomp dancer.īorn in the tiny cypress logging town of Copeland, in eastern Collier County, Linda Lee grew up in impoverished Indian camps and migrant-type housing as her family tried to eke out a living in the backwoods of Florida of the 1950s. TAMPA – The third try proved to be the charm for Seminole Tribal citizen Linda Lee Henry, who passed her General Education Development (GED) test and earned a high school equivalency diploma recently. Recent graduate Linda Lee Henry holds her diploma while joined by Tampa Reservation administrator Richard Henry, left, Elder Services coordinator Lola Juarez and Bobby Henry on June 21.
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