Florine is the widow of Joseph Benjamin Evans, Jr., a chemist with whom she shared forty-nine years of marriage. Her father was a COGIC pastor.Florine received her business training at Wisiner School of Business. She has worked in for the State of Oklahoma in politics (in the governor's office) and as a training manager at AT&T, where she was assigned a pilot project for the deaf-to-hearing community. To God be the glory!