Complex sentence: Teresa (Katz) Thorne was born April 17,1954 in Montgomery, Alabama, the child of Warren Katz (a retired naval engineer and VP for Steiner Lobman Dry Goods) and mother Jane, an ardent reformer of the Alabama State Legislature.
Split into simpler sentences: Teresa (Katz) Thorne was born April 17,1954 in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father, a retired naval engineer, was a VP for Steiner Lobman Dry Goods, and mother, an active reformer of the Alabama State Legislature.