My brother had jobs with the newspapers. He had a morning route with The Courier, at that time it was called the Republican Courier. In the evening he had Lima News and Toledo Blade. On Sunday he had Lima News, Toledo Blade, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch, and I think it was Columbus Star; there were five on Sunday. But he was an asthmatic, and whenever the weather was bad he couldn’t do it and I had to do those things [laughs].

So that was after we moved into town. Then of course with World War II he was drafted into the army and he was a year behind in school because he was an asthmatic and only went to school six weeks his first year. That put us in the same class. And our teachers thought we were twins because the papers we handed in were so similar that they were sure that we were either copying from each other or we had to be twins. They separated us; they put us on opposite sides of the room and the papers still came out the same.

So by him having to go into the service that made him 18 and they started drafting 18 year olds, and he had to go into the service. Well then, he didn’t get to finish his senior year in school.

But I went on and after I was out of high school for eight years, I worked. I was a dental assistant for one of the dentists here in town and worked as a nurse aid out of the hospital and did various things of that sort.

A friend of mine came over one day and he said, he was a ministerial student at Bluffton College, he said, ’why don’t you go to college?’

I kind of laughed, you know, you know in those days girls really didn’t go that much to college.

He said, ’I’m coming over tomorrow and get you and I’m going to take you to Bluffton to register to go to college.’ I thought he was kidding, but he did. He came and took me over and got me registered for college. I went through - I always thought I wanted to be a missionary.