A super evening with Sandra's family

Meet Sandra again. She is the one and only child of Willard and Dolly, my oldest brother. After bearing 9 children, her husband left her so she trained as a nurse, raised the family and is now retired in Port Charlotte, Florida. One of the children drowned tragically as a youngster. The rest are busy raising families! Almost all attend the same church in Port Charlotte and among them are quite a few teachers.

Not all are pictured here, just those who were at the Saturday night meeting. All the children are married but Matthew. One of the sons, Dan, lives in Maine with an energetic wife who has a herd of goats and produces sought-after goat cheese!

Dwight, Anna Ruth and I had supper on Saturday night with Sandra at The Cracker Barrel and then piled in at the new home of Adam and Aime and their two kids. What an evening. Here are a few of the slides of the people.


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Dr. Trent Jacobs - bassoonist

University of Illinois

School of Music

Urbana, Ill

DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS RECITAL
Trent Jacobs, bassoon
Tuesday, 11/27/2007, 7:30 pm
Smith Memorial Hall Recital Hall

Three cheers for Trent! Not bad for a 27 year old, is it? We can all be proud of Trent along with his parents, Marcia and Terry Jacobs. Terry is the oldest son of Dwight and Mildred of North Lima, Ohio. Trent was married on August 6, 2006 to Sarah Elizabeth Matthews.

Go for it, Trent. Your family is behind you!

Dwight serves at ECHO

This is Dwight, all decked out in his ECHO tie. Dwight volunteers two days a week at ECHO. ECHO stands for Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization. Their center is in North Fort Myers where they simulate four different growing habitats from much rain to little rain, etc. They are constantly striving to perfect ways of food production for each ecological type. Development workers and missionaries find this place to be a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge.

Dwight, who lives near Arcadia, about 12 miles away, counts his two days a week at ECHO as a special gift from God because he can employ many of his interests in nature and missions in a meaningful way as he serves as a guide.

We visited with Dwight Feb. 8 - 17 and enjoyed seeing him enjoying life to the hilt.

Don and Anna Ruth