109:, to John Dirk and Gertrude Roorda Synhorst. She had two siblings. She began elementary school when she was 4 years old at West Amsterdam and graduated high school when she was 15 years old. Had she graduated high school at an older age, SerVaas would have gone into a teaching career soon after. She began attending
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the Cory Jane Clamp-on Apron, which she invented when she was a seamstress. The apron was manufactured by the Clamp-On
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created high-lysine corn 20 years prior, but the corn was only fed to livestock and poultry for the animals to gain weight fast. The corn was not grown often and had low yields. She was a host of a weekly health show on the
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