Descendants of Apache, Juanita Tah Chambers was born in 1953 in Ponca City in Oklahoma, but during his childhood he often changed the city following her father who was a civil engineer.
She studied mathematics at the Kilgore College in Kilgore and at Kentucky State University.
She started playing bridge towards the twenty years and in the late 70s has also become a teacher.
In 1983 she married Neil Chambers, a strong American bridge player who, among other things, won the Senior Olympics in 2004.
In 1995 he had a second marriage with Thomas W. Skelton who passed away on April 26, 2001.
Juanita had one child from the first marriage and two from the second.
Woman player of great talent won the Venice Cup in 1987, finishing third, ten years later and second in 2015, the 1996 Olympics and the World Championship in Mixed Pairs of 1990. She also won 18 NABC among them twice Sternberg in 1991 and in 1993 and the Whitehead in 1995.
After 2000 has unfortunately fallen into the lap of alcohol and drugs in 2009 led her to having to undergo a rehabilitation period of a year to avoid jail. The rehabilitation was so positive that Juanita decided to stop for a couple of years in the structure to help women with its own problems.
In 2012, by now completely healed, she desired to play and is back in the circuit races. World Women Grand Master, now lives in Garland in Texas in the same city of brother Ed Barganier who helped her when she was arrested in Boca Raton in Florida for cocaine possession.
Juanita is disappeared in Dallas 2016, July 29.
Senior Grand Master, Neil won the Senior Olympics in 2004 and silver at the World Senior Team in 2014, twice the Cavendish Teams in 1987 and 2007, twice the Mitchell in 1978 and 1981, the Vanderbilt in 1992