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| − | | spouse = {{marriage|()=small |Jon Everman|1979-2-14| | + | | spouse = {{marriage|()=small |Jon Everman|1979-2-14||}} |
| children = [[Garfield Everman]]<BR>Elisa Everman<br>[[Holly Everman]]<br>Lynsey Everman | | children = [[Garfield Everman]]<BR>Elisa Everman<br>[[Holly Everman]]<br>Lynsey Everman | ||
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==Career== | ==Career== | ||
| − | Everman began her broadcast career at Notre Dame University, in 1975.<ref>??</ref> She began her television career in the summer of 1980 at then CBS affiliate | + | Everman began her broadcast career at Notre Dame University, in 1975.<ref>??</ref> She began her television career in the summer of 1980 at then CBS affiliate WFTW (channel 6, now a CW affiliate). In 1982, she moved to then ABC affiliate WFAZ-FTV (channel 36, now channel 9 WMRI-FTV) in Fort Wayne as weekend anchor, despite having no formal broadcasting education. At the age of 22, she was one of the youngest weekend anchorwomen in the country. In October 1982, WFAZ-FTV was sold to ATE Media Corportion |
| − | WFAZ-FTV and WPMA-FTV (channel 7, now WNDI-FTV) switched network affiliations on July 1, 1984 and WFAZ-FTV became an NBC affiliate. Everman impressed her new bosses at ATE Media (notably [[Patrice Rafferty]]) enough that Rafferty wanted to either move Everman to sister station | + | WFAZ-FTV and WPMA-FTV (channel 7, now WNDI-FTV) switched network affiliations on July 1, 1984 and WFAZ-FTV became an NBC affiliate. Everman impressed her new bosses at ATE Media (notably [[Patrice Rafferty]]) enough that Rafferty wanted to either move Everman to sister station WHOO-FTV (channel 24, then a CBS affiliate) in Indianapolis or remain at WFAZ in 1984. Despite having no formal education in broadcasting, she was named the best newscaster in Northeast Indiana by the Fort Wayne Press Club in 1987, beating out such competition as WFTW's Lynne Jackson (now Everman's colleague at WTOR) and WNDI's Karla Hensen (now at KJTX Dallas). |
Everman was promoted to WFAZ's morning newscast ''NewsCenter 36 Today'' (now ''NewsCenter 9 Sunrise'') and noon newscast ''NewsCenter 36 at Noon'' (now ''NewsCenter 9 Midday at Noon'') in 1992, co-anchoring with Lando Kelso (for both newscasts when Kelso left WFAZ) until 1996 and later Pete Ward (for the morning newscast only). At the same time, she enrolled in Ball State University's broadcasting program, earning the broadcasting upon her graduation. | Everman was promoted to WFAZ's morning newscast ''NewsCenter 36 Today'' (now ''NewsCenter 9 Sunrise'') and noon newscast ''NewsCenter 36 at Noon'' (now ''NewsCenter 9 Midday at Noon'') in 1992, co-anchoring with Lando Kelso (for both newscasts when Kelso left WFAZ) until 1996 and later Pete Ward (for the morning newscast only). At the same time, she enrolled in Ball State University's broadcasting program, earning the broadcasting upon her graduation. | ||
| − | In 2004, 22 years after ATE Media acquired WFAZ, the station changed its call sign to WMRI-FTV and moved from channel 36 to channel 9. Later that year, ATE Media signed a long-term affiliation deal with [[wikipedia:American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] that resulted in WMRI switching from NBC back to ABC after 20 years. Everman left WMRI in 2006 after 26 years shortly after the death of longtime anchorwoman Laura Bakula. Everman was unhappy with the station's decision to choose Melinda Long over Everman as the co-anchor of WMRI's weeknight newscasts. | + | In 2004, 22 years after ATE Media acquired WFAZ, the station changed its call sign to WMRI-FTV and moved from channel 36 to channel 9. Later that year, ATE Media signed a long-term affiliation deal with [[wikipedia:American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] that resulted in WMRI switching from NBC back to ABC after 20 years. Everman left WMRI in 2006 after 26 years shortly after the death of longtime anchorwoman Laura Bakula. Everman was unhappy with the station's decision to choose Melinda Long over Everman as the co-anchor of WMRI's weeknight newscasts. |
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| + | She freelanced at NBC affiliate WNDI for two years until Everman followed several of her former WMRI colleagues to rival CBS affiliate WTOR in 2008, which had merged with independent station WXXC after NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations bought WTOR from Imperial Broadcasting a year earlier. | ||
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==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||
==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
| − | In 1976, Sabrina began dating Jon Everman while Sabrina was a senior and Jon a sophomore at Blackford High School. They wed on Valentine's Day 1979 and have remained married | + | In 1976, Sabrina began dating Jon Everman while Sabrina was a senior and Jon a sophomore at Blackford High School. They wed on Valentine's Day 1979 and have remained married since. |
| − | Sabrina has four children, a son [[Garfield Everman|Garfield]] (b. 1978 d. 2011) and three daughters, [[Elisa Everman|Elisa]] (b. 1979), [[Holly Everman|Holly]] (b. 1980 | + | Sabrina has four children, a son [[Garfield Everman|Garfield]] (b. 1978 d. 2011) and three daughters, [[Elisa Everman|Elisa]] (b. 1979), [[Holly Everman|Holly]] (b. 1980), and Lynsey (b. 1982), with Jon. |
Everman became a grandmother on July 10, 1994, when her oldest daughter Elisa and then son-in-law [[Michelle Steele|Miccah Steele]] had daughter, [[Nermal Everman|Nermal]] (Nermal died on July 5, 2015; Nermal drowned in the White River in Muncie, Indiana<ref name="NermalDeath"> | Everman became a grandmother on July 10, 1994, when her oldest daughter Elisa and then son-in-law [[Michelle Steele|Miccah Steele]] had daughter, [[Nermal Everman|Nermal]] (Nermal died on July 5, 2015; Nermal drowned in the White River in Muncie, Indiana<ref name="NermalDeath"> | ||
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| work = WTOR-FTV CBS 41 | | work = WTOR-FTV CBS 41 | ||
| date = 2007-07-06 | | date = 2007-07-06 | ||
| − | | accessdate = 2015-07-06 }}</ref><ref name="CBS 41 Nermal story">{{cite news|title=Nermal Everman Death: Officials analyze water in river where Muncie woman was found dead|newspaper=CBS 41 Action News|date=July 6, 2015|accessdate=July 6, 2015}}</ref>). Elisa later had a son Timothy (now transgendered daughter [[Tiffani Zinn|Tiffani]]) with [[Ava Zinn]] (then Frank Zinn) (b. 1999 | + | | accessdate = 2015-07-06 }}</ref><ref name="CBS 41 Nermal story">{{cite news|title=Nermal Everman Death: Officials analyze water in river where Muncie woman was found dead|newspaper=CBS 41 Action News|date=July 6, 2015|accessdate=July 6, 2015}}</ref>). Elisa later had a son Timothy (now transgendered daughter [[Tiffani Zinn|Tiffani]]) with [[Ava Zinn]] (then Frank Zinn) (b. 1999) and daughter Shushu Marie (b. 1999 d. 2009). Everman's son Garfield married Natalie Hompkinson in 1998. Their son, Oliver Edward (now transgendered daughter [[Olivia Everman|Olivia Cassadee]]) was born on September 10, 1996 and . Sabrina's youngest daughter, Lynsey, married Dominick Matthewson on October 1, 2011, and the couple had their first child, a son, Ethan Garfield Matthewson in January 2012. Lynsey later a daughter Madison Pia Matthewson in November 2014. Sabrina's daughter, Holly, married Veronica Willis in July 2012. Their son, Aiden Nickolas Willis, was born on November 25, 2013. Holly will have second child with [[Perri Johnson]] in 2016. |
| − | Everman | + | Everman will become a great step-grandmother through Holly's relationship with Perri. |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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[[Category:Living people]] | [[Category:Living people]] | ||
[[Category:American television personalities]] | [[Category:American television personalities]] | ||
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[[Category:People from Muncie, Indiana]] | [[Category:People from Muncie, Indiana]] | ||
