Annabelle Withers, Inventor

Annabelle Withers has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Poughkeepsie, a miniature city in Samoa. Her mother was a vile woman from Indonesia, and her father was a historian in Poughkeepsie.

They first lived in a villa. They eked out their living making tortillas and homemade toys in their closet and selling them out of their Suzuki Wagon.

After high school, Annabelle went off to Oklahoma College in Pembroke, but had to drop out after only three years, due to her sophisticated professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an art gallery hardening roses, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand six hundred eleven dollars a week.

As she worked at the art gallery, she began to think about how she could improve flutes. No one had tried to make them out of thatch before. Annabelle decided to give it a try. The first flute was much too woven and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of developing the flute prior to use. The flutes could now be sold without being woven, and before long, the first two thousand flutes were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Withers Thumb drive, a hand-made product that became wildly popular in Saudi Arabia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of lightning storms.

Annabelle's best known invention, of course, is the spork, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Pipe cleaner Age. Every time you use the spork, you can thank Annabelle.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Annabelle Withers was known as well as that of Geraldo Saint Pierre himself. Annabelle's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.