Roxanne Kleemann:  

After H S, I went to work for the phone co., and then as a secretary for various firms; stock brokers, insurance adjusters and sales, Max Factor, McDonnell Aircraft, and finally, land developers--two of them. I sure did put the skills I learned in Mrs. Woodhall's business classes to good use. In between those jobs, I met my husband, Bill. We married in 1974 and, in 1977, our first child, Kelli, was born. Kimi followed in 1979, the same year that I became a Christian. After the birth of my first child, I took a break from the office and stayed home for 13 years. In 1983, our little family moved from a quiet California desert community (Californica City) to a tropical paradise and ITT develpment some 3 thousand miles away called Palm Coast, FL. Time was spent socializing with new friends, aerobics classes, co-teaching a women's Bible study, taking the kids to the swim club or the beach, leading a Brownie Troop for Kelli and a Daisy Troop for Kimi. Then, exactly 1 year after moving to our shangri-la, my husband suffered a cerebral hemhorrage resulting from an AVM. It was then that I learned what it was to have real faith in my Lord. Since Bill was the only recorded survivor of an AVM affected in the brain, the Univ of Florida studied him for 5 years. Anyway, many miracles as well as happy years and sad times followed, and God's grace brought us through. In 1989 I went back to work and then in 1995 I became very lonesome for my family and we moved back here to Calif. I got a job in ...Expand for more