During those years I learned well the art and skill of advocacy. I cared for vulnerable populations in several different healthcare venues. My nursing practice first found me in the field of psychiatric nursing for Cambridge State Hospital (and the many name revisions that followed there) followed by prison nursing at Noble Correctional Institution, and finally as Nurse Manager for the Veterans Administration in both Mental Health (1st Nurse Manager at Columbus campus), and Primary Care (Zanesville and Cambridge Community Based Outreach
Clinics). Throughout all this, my advocacy skills became well honed.

I retired from nursing in 2020, right around the time the dread Covid outbreak was occurring. After having worked somewhere since I was 15 years old, I found it extremely difficult to sit at home day in and day out. As an empty nester from having the busy life of raising a daughter, and helping to raise one of my stepsons, I felt without purpose. My sister and brother-in-law, George & Carolyn Sherry,

co-brokers at Y City Realty in Zanesville, OH, joined us for dinner on New Year’s Eve, 2020, and I discussed this with them asking if they thought I would make a good realtor. They both encouraged me to complete the coursework needed to get my real estate license and stated they would sponsor me through their brokerage when I had completed all of those requirements. I did so and received my license June 15,
2021.

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Once licensed, I promptly joined up with the team at Y-City Realty. They proved to be a great team to work with and taught me so much to get me started and work with folks in a whole new line of work from what I was accustomed. What I quickly recognized in this new career move was the beauty of my experience in advocacy, for although real estate is not healthcare, it is still helping folks through what can be a stressful and life-changing experience. It requires leadership skills and advocacy to help them (sometimes down to hand holding while they cry) to understand and to complete with as little stress as possible convoluted real estate practices.

However, although I totally enjoyed working with, and I am grateful for the mentoring I received from the team at Y-City Realty, I don’t live in the Muskingum County area. It was solely for that demographic reason that I said fare well to the Y-City Realty team and I have now joined up with a new team at Scott-Ogle Realty in Cambridge. I am excited to be “home” and look forward to working with Mark and Beth Wharton, and the rest of my new team members to deliver the quality, professional, and trusted real estate practices my hometown community is used to from that well-established brokerage!

Having said all of the above, I will give you just a little about me personally, I am a wife of 30 years to my wonderful husband (Ron Hupp); mother of 1 daughter (Stacy Zimmer) stepmother of 2 “sons” (Mike and Jason); grandmother of one grandson and two granddaughters, as well as great-grandmother of three young boys and one young girl (with another boy and girl soon to arrive). Who could be more blessed!

I am a member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the corresponding local Guernsey-Muskingum Valley Board of Realtors, (GMVAR), Trinity Lutheran Church in Zanesville, Ohio, and a life Auxiliary member of the Byesville VFW Post 3760. My hobbies include crochet, reading, genealogy, and I absolutely love to travel.