La’Tanya Y’vette Patty is a proud native of Shaw, Mississippi. She attended Delta State University, where she played college basketball. A mother of one son, she later moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she began a homeschool day care and taught preschool children for ten years. After her husband, William, passed, she founded William Carroll Supportive Living Facilities, LLC, which housed mentally ill and disabled individuals. She later returned to Shaw, where she currently lives.
