Randy Dees:  

I am going to give the short version of my story. After graduating in 76 I attended Twin Lakes Votech in Harrison,graduated from Auto, Body and paint. We (Karen,our son Shannon and myself) moved to West Chicago to work in one of her inlaws body shop. We stayed there for about 7 months(about as long as I could stand the city life) and then moved back to Diamond City where we built a house and stayed. I worked at auto body work for a while and got out of that field and went to work doing construction. Worked with a company out of Harrison doing specialty work with acid resistant epoxies and ended up traveling alot in the midwest and to the west coast. I got tired of that and also was causing marital problems so went to work for Arkansas Freightways in 1983 where I stayed until 1986. Karen and I were seperated for about a year in 1984 and divorced in 1986 at which time I packed up and moved to Fairbanks Alaska! I really enjoyed Alaska, working for A & A Roofing and Construction Contractors. I kept the materials expedited to the job sites, inventory, etc. While there I got to go Caribou,grizzly bear and black bear hunting, fished for King Salmon and just spent alot of time out doors. In 1988 I became a Christian and In the later part of 1989 felt led to move back to Arkansas so my room mate who I had met in Alaska and was from Marshall AR loaded our cars up and headed back to the lower 48's. Once in Seattle he went to California to visit friends and I stayed with relatives in Washington for a couple of weeks before heading for Arkansas. Once back in Arkansas I started attending Evangel Bible Church and met my wife Judy. She was an english teacher at the Harrison Jr High. We dated six weeks and married. We have been married for almost(will be in April) nineteen years ago. We have between us 3 children and 6 grandchildren. I worked for myself for a while and then went to work ...Expand for more