Martha Jeanne Mowdy (Peterson):  

Life Since I have been out of school,I was married for 6 years to a abusive alcoholic had 3 children by him. Divorced him and was single for 12 years. Met my now husband, Leonard who was a Marine during the Vietnam war, and have been happily blessed for 19 years with him. He has 4 children of his own which means we have 7 grown children now,or should be grown anyway. We have 19 grandchildren which we love very much. Two of whom we are raising at this time. They are 17 and 14 years old. We are hoping they go home soon, so we can be grandparents again instead of parents. We live in Lebanon, Oregon.We bought our house here in 1992. When we met my husband was a maintenance welder for a company named ORMET, where they make airplane parts and other things out of titanium. That is some pretty scary stuff if not handled right. He use to be a guide for steelhead fish on the rivers here in Or. until his working a 12 hour rotation shift and guiding got to be to much with him not getting enough rest and he had a heart attach. So now we do a lot of fishing and hunting for our own pleasure. We have done payphone repair. Leonard taught me how. I enjoyed doing it. I could fix and collect them and I use to help him to do installs. We did a lot of driving. We also did foster care. We use to do teenage girls, but now we will just take care of our grand daughters as the teenage girls are to powerful for our granddaughters. I don't want them subjected to the open lives the teenage foster girls have. We no longer do Foster care. 2007 YEAH! We no ...Expand for more