Timea Frye's Bio of overcoming Nazi Prejudice and... -
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Biography of Timea Csonka Frye
Timea was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976.
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Timea has one brother Andras Csonka Jr. With her parents and
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brother, Timea left Hungary in 1987.
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In 1988, Timea and her family were transferred out of the refugee camp to the small town of
Sandl, Austria.
The town was small and its people were very helpful.
Many families opened their
homes to the refugee families and allowed their children to attend school.
This gave Timea the
opportunity to learn German and translate for her parents.
However, they had many scary times
as well, which to this day brings bad memories to Timea.
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For many days Timea would
come home from school after being beaten and verbally abused.
However, she is the
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strong women, Timea is always reminded that she as well has the ability to overcome prejudice.
In 1989, thanks to the help of Trinity Church in Vermilion, South Dakota her family moved to
the United States of America!
The local newspaper, Plain Talk, wrote an article of their journey
to the United States of America, but because Timea was unable to read the article, she strived to
learn the American culture and language fluently within one year of living in the United States.
In 1990 they moved to Sunnyvale, California where she attended Homestead High School.
Timea worked as a housekeeper/babysitter to help support her family, and volunteered to help
out with the Special Needs students in her High School during the summer programs.
She
decided to continue her poetry writing in 1991.
By the age of 17, one of her poems she wrote
for her father was published in a Hungarian Newspaper.
In 1993 Timea and her family moved to
Glendale, Arizona.
She attended Alhambra High where she became the assistant librarian.
She
graduated from Alhambra High School in 1995.
As her graduation present, her parents sent her
for a vacation to Hungary to learn about her Hungarian culture.
Timea took a job at her cousin
Otto's Youth Hostel, and after work she studied Hungarian Literature.
Through her studies she
discovered that she was related to a famous Hungarian writer, Remenyik Zsigmond, and her
great-great grandfather was a Baron, named S,ghi Baro, from Dormand, Hungary.
After she returned to the USA, Timea and her family moved back to California.
In the fall of
1995 she attended De Anza College to study American Literature, World History and Graphic
Designs.
Timea worked at Wolf Camera and Ritz Camera to put herself through College.
In
1998 she began to date her husband Jayson C. Frye.
In 1999 Jayson and Timea married.
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Timea became a stay at home mother of two daughters.
In 2002 she set her goal to become a
published author.
Timea's dream to become a published author was constantly denied, yet she
never accepted no for an answer.
In 2004 she wrote 3 children's books, 2 non-fiction novels.
In
2005, she was dissatisfied with her accomplishments and was determent to do more.
During the
same year not only did she struggled to save her mother from lung cancer, she succeeded with
publishing her first book of poetry, The Violin, and created a place for children and adult poets to