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The Safety Deposit Box Shock is a biography of the father of Carol Ann Patterson Boyles-Jernigan.

The Safety Deposit Box Shock is a biography of the father of Carol Ann Patterson Boyles-Jernigan.

Author releases biography of her father

May 19, 2020

JOHNSON CITY, TN - The Safety Deposit Box Shock: Your Secrets Will Find You Out by Carol Ann Patterson Boyles-Jernigan has been published by Jan-Carol Publishing, Inc., of Johnson City, Tenn. Boyles-Jernigan lives in Blountville, Tenn..

Boyles-Jernigan’s professional career encompassed 48 years as an administrator at Keuka College, Central Florida Community College (now College of Central Florida), Florida State University and the University of North Florida. She received her BA from Keuka College, and MED and advanced studies from the University of Florida. In her retirement, she founded the Jacksonville, Fla., Christian Women’s Job Corps.

The Safety Deposit Box Shock is a biography, the true story of the life of the Carol Ann Patterson Boyles-Jernigan’s father, Paul Bryan Patterson, Ph.D., and his legacy. The novel explores his family’s genealogy, his life at the University of Kansas, his married life, his secret and the tragedies that colored his life.

Patterson was part of a scandal that rocked the University of Kansas, one that involved a sophomore track star falling in love with the senior campus sweetheart. Their love produced a little girl who thought her father was dead. All the while, the secret about her heritage lay deep at the bottom of a safety deposit box.

The book is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com, and through Jan-Carol Publishing.

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