Marti Browne:  

Life After graduating from KHS I went on to CMSU in Warrensburg, MO and graduated with a B.S. in Education. I decided to venture into the Apparel Industry instead of teaching Junior High and High School. I was a Retail Buyer for The Jones Store Co. and then for Macy's in Kansas City. Later I was a Buyer for Famous-Barr in St. Louis before moving to the "other side of the fence". I moved to San Francisco and was Head of Design and Merchandising for Fritzi of CA and later moved to Los Angeles and was V.P. Marketing for a large Apparel Firm and later Head of Design and Merchandising for another very large Apparel Firm in L.A. After traveling all over the world and achieving some pretty great things, I retired from the Apparel Industry in the mid 80's and began to work on my recovery from having been married to an emotionally abusive husband that had a huge problem with alcohol. Alcoholism is a horrible disease and it not only destroys the alcoholic but destroys all those affected by it. I'm very grateful I found a way to get my sanity back and have a fulfilling life. It took me a number of years in Al-Anon and a number of years in various other modes of recovery to break free from the cycle of abuse & codependency that I was so deeply entrenched in. It has been a life long journey for me but I've made great headway one day at a time. I became a Missionary for awhile and later went to Fuller Theological Seminary to work on my M.Div. This is where I met my wonderful husband, John, that I have been married to for the past 21+ years. My life is pretty great now. We live on a beautiful Alpaca Ranch in the High Desert in Southern California. We have Alpacas, 2 Missouri Fox Trotter horses, a Golden Retriever, Kitties, Chickens, and more just to name a few of our menagerie! It's a great place for us kids at heart! So I went from being a "City Girl" and "Business Profess...Expand for more