Beverly Jehs:  

I'm married for nearly 60 years to my husband Bob and we have 4 children ( 1 daughter is dead and waiting for us on the other side.) After my husband finished his 4 years in the USAF we moved to Sacramento where he worked in construction for OE Local #3.From there, we moved to San Jose where with a few short term moves we stayed until he retired in 1995. In 1996 we sold our home and moved to Montana. In 1970 I started back to school at SJCC and very shortly there after we discovered I was indeed pregnant for the 4th time and I decided to finish the semester I was in regardless. Boy, did I push it close; I took my last final and went to the Dr. and never made it home; my daughter was born that evening. After that I had to chose between my children and my desire for a profession and I choose my children. When my daughter was 5 and in school I went to work and started a business at the same time. I became a nationally certified ceramic teacher and opened a shop in our home (my husband built a large shop behind our house) and I worked as a engineering coordinator in electronics for a microwave company and did that for 24 years. But, it seems I didn't have enough to do so we also became commercial salmon fishermen on the week-ends. There was a year+ that we moved to Minnesota to a grade A dairy farm. Bob and I loved it but our daughter-in-law hated it and rather than separate our family we sold out and moved back to California. Land of Lakes came to talk to us and told us they never thought anybody could turn that farm into a profit making business and ask us to change our minds and stay on the farm. Of course, we didn't, they weren't separating me from my grandson. In 2000 my husband and I were sealed for time and eternity in the Spokane LDS temple on April 4, our 42 anniversary. That same year in October, the day before hunting season, Bob had a double Aorta aneurysm and we were told outside the operating room door that we needed to say our goodbyes as nobody had ever survived in that hospital. That was the hardest day of our marriage. About 10 or 11 hours later the surgeon came out and told me that we then had a living body and not a corpse but that they would amputate both legs within the next 24 hours. I was totally blown away at that point. Our church president and wonderful missionaries gave him a 3rd blessing at that point. The Dr. came in about 2 hours later and said that his legs were turning pink again and it looked like they would not have to remove them. They said he would be in the hospital for 5-6 months, he was home in 3 weeks. The Dr. is the same Dr. who did my breast surgery. Bob is doing fairly well now; he has diabetes and has put on a lot of weight but is slowly starting to lose it. He has been through a lot. We own 30+ acres here and have worked hard to develop this into a small ranch. We pretty much raised our oldest grandson and our 2n...Expand for more