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Article: WORKING ON THE DOCKS CHERI DEWBERRY HAS BECOME THE THIRD GENERATION IN HER FAMILY TO WORK AT THE BUSTLING PORT.(NORFOLK COMPASS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 10, 1997
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Byline: JOAN C. STANUS, STAFF WRITER
GROWING UP, CHERI Dewberry didn't know much about her father's job except that he worked long hours.
But she did know this. The rough-and-tumble Port of Hampton Roads was no place for women.
``Daughters were suppose to do other jobs . . . like typing, filing and running cash registers,'' she said. ``It never entered my head to follow in my daddy's footsteps. Girls just didn't work on the docks.''
But those days have changed. Today, some 20 years after her father, Vernon Dewberry Jr., retired as a longshoreman checker, the 29-year-old Virginia Beach woman has become the third generation in her family ...