Sharon Gilbert:  

Life My Spouse I met my husband when we moved to Plummer, Idaho the summer of 1961 when my dad became the pastor of a small church there. Denny was driving truck for a pole company and working on his family farm. He completed 2 years of auto mechanics at NIJC and the diesel mechanics training at ISU in Pocatello before we were married in Spokane in August of 1964. He restored a little '34 Ford pickup that we took on our honeymoon to Coulee Dam. My Pets Our last pets were an AKC-registered small blonde Cocker Spaniel named Mopsy that my husband gave me after taking our youngest daughter to college and our daughter's cat who needed to have the freedom our acreage offered her until a coyote got her. What is it they say about "freedom isn't free?" We've had a couple of horses, a pony, a few chickens when the kids were little, a couple of little dogs and two other cats over the years. My Kids Our oldest daughter graduated from ITT school of Business, worked as a secretary for Boeing and lives in Portland with her family. She has three children--ages 19, 17, and 15. The oldest now lives with us during the schoolyear and is attending Green River Community College which is about 2 miles from our home. Our son, an '89 WSU graduate lives in Puyallup with his wife, 11-year old son, and daughter who is almost 5. He is a credit supervisor for Millgard Windows and his wife is the office manager at one of our elementary schools here in Auburn. Our youngest daughter, a 1993 Whitman grad., lives in Bellingham with her husband and new little boy and teaches a Lang. Ar...Expand for more