Mehaffey shifts from band life to ministry amid family sacrifice
Mehaffey recalls leaving a light company job after long talks with his wife to pursue ministry, using their home as a down payment for education. He commuted to Southern Methodist University from a Texas town, faced tuition burdens, and completed studies at Drake before serving at Asbury United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids. The couple endured financial strain, traveled for classes, and found renewed family unity through the plan.
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Mehaffey
Light Company
Texas
Southern Methodist University
Iowa
Drake
Asbury United Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids
Farming Dream Reclaims City Couple for Iowa Acres
Brian and Beverly Forster left Chicago with limited farming knowledge to manage 240 acres near Winthrop Iowa. They built a hog and corn operation, raised two children, faced skepticism from friends, and embraced a simpler life away from crime and urban career pressures. Their shift came after a failed Irish inheritance talk and a desire for family growth, shared goals, and independence.
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Winthrop
Brian
Ireland
Bev
State Park
Forsters
Princeton
Ill
Chicago
Iowa
From teaching to electrician
Don Shaw, 41, left his special education teaching post at Cedar Rapids to become an electrician in 1973. After earning a license and wiring several houses, his first year income doubled his teaching salary, and he now runs his own business with flexible hours and higher earnings. He notes the move attracted others, as two fellow teachers started their own ventures the same year.
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Don Shaw
Ruth
Don
Harriet Ave. NW
Shaw
Cedar Rapids
Arlington Heights couple swap home for farm life
Brian Forster and Bev moved from their Arlington Heights Illinois home to a farm. They adapted quickly to farm life, handling tasks from checking the automatic feeding system in the farrowing house to plowing fields.
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Brian Forster
Arlington Heights
Ill
Bev
Mystery of vanished fish at Paignton Zoo solved
Thousands of live fish raised to feed zoo animals disappeared from a pool in Paignton England Keepers draining the pool found three sharks and a knife fish had been dumped in by mistake when they were fry.
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Paignton
England
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Church of Your Choosing
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