Complex sentence: His mother, Jeanne J. (née Martyn), a housewife, brought him and his sister Lucinda up, and his father, Ronald W. Worthington, was a power plant employee.
Split into simpler sentences: His mother, Jeanne J. (née Martyn), a housewife, brought him and his sister Lucinda up. His father, Ronald W. Worthington, was a power plant employee.