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| Hometown: | |||||
| Lamar, Missouri | |||||
| Place of Birth: | |||||
| Burden, Kansas | |||||
| Church Affiliation: | |||||
| Christian (independent) | |||||
| Number of Years Writing: | |||||
| 12 | |||||
| List of Other Publications and Year Published: | |||||
| Over 300 articles and more than 90 publications since 1990, including Mature Living, Mature Years, and Christian Standard | |||||
| Education: | |||||
| B.S. in Education | |||||
| Employment: | |||||
| Retired Special Education teacher, taught children and youth with severe handicaps four years; as Vocational Resource Educator, worked with high school students in vocational/technical school who had learning and physical disabilities. | |||||
| Family: | |||||
| Married 47 years; husband
is retired from the Missouri Highway Department as a surveyor; Six adult children Eleven grandchildren, ages 11-20. |
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| Additional Info: | |||||
| My mother had Alzheimer's disease for 8 ½ years and my dad cared for her at home. Five months after her death, my mother-in-law was diagnosed with the disease and lived 15 years after the diagnosis. She spent her last years in a nursing home. | |||||
