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Dayton native Erma Louise Fiste was only thirteen years old when she wrote her first newspaper column, which appeared in the Emerson Junior High School Owl. While her childhood was hard -- her father died when she was nine -- Erma Fiste prevailed.

Though her mother had hopes of turning her daughter, a gifted singer and dancer, into "the next Shirley Temple," Erma knew early on that she would become a writer.

That dream grew as Erma attended high school; while there, she wrote a column for the student newspaper.

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At fifteen, she managed to get a job as a copygirl for the Dayton Herald newspaper. At this time she met Bill Bombeck, who was a copyboy on the morning paper, the Dayton Journal.

Upon high school graduation, she mostly wrote obituaries for the newly-merged Journal Herald.

After a year, with enough in her savings account, Erma attended Ohio University in Athens. Her stepfather was in the Army overseas and her mother insisted that she return to Dayton. She enrolled a