Brenda Keeton:  

Now retired (at 56) after years of working for the public and have a home on the Tennessee River in the Cherokee Heights area. I am a level 2 volunteer firefighter(retired) in our rural community, also a part of the EMA mass casualty team, a storm spotter for the national weather service out of Memphis, a ham radio operator, and chairman of events of the ladies auxiliary for our fire dept. all now retired from. I love fishing, hunting, boating and spending lots of time on the river. I also enjoy decorating, especially at Christmas. I am very happily married to Tony, the love of my life, my soul mate (took me years to finally find him), we have been married for 19 blissful years. We own our own business, called Cherokee Electric and HVAC, Tony does the work, I keep the books and love being a housewife for a change, after working in the public for most of my life. Retirement is great, but retirement is also so busy for us. Tony still has the business, but we have been able to cut back somewhat and have more time doing other things. We attend church and both are very active in church activities. In July of 2015 we went to Belize on a church missionary trip and stayed a week helping to build and complete a church in the village of San Marcos, Belize. We went there to be a blessing to others and came back home being the ones that were blessed. Tony did all of the electrical wiring for the church, that had been being built by our church missions team over the past year. We were blessed to have been able to be the first missions team to attend the first church service in the new church that our church people helped build and donate money for the church in San Marcos. We held women's bible study and VBS for the children and went home to home to give out care packages, food and Bibles. The people there are mostly Kectchi Indian and so grateful for everything we did for them. We left a piece of our heart in Belize and hope to...Expand for more