Judith and her husband married when he came home on a two week leave from boot-camp. His orders were for a three year stint in Germany with the United States Air Force. However, the military did not recognize enlisted men's wives. This meant that, after being married for only a week, he had to leave her home. She worked two jobs and earned enough money to join him three months later. Their first child was born overseas in a military hospital. Judith and her husband are married for more than 40 years, and have four married children and twelve grandchildren. She enjoys playing games and doing puzzles with grandkids, as well as coloring with them in dollar store coloring books. Her hobbies are oil painting, reading uplifting and self-improvement books, and writing. Reading good books opened her mind to a completely different world, and she is thankful for the ILD business organization that encouraged her to read from their book list. She feels that has opened up more opportunities for her. Judith has been teaching adults and children in church for almost forty years, and she takes that responsibility very seriously. Most recently, for the last three years in Texas and then two years before that in Indiana, she taught children ages 16 to 17 in Sunday School. As you might guess, she loves the children as if they are her own . Being in the military, her husband and she have become world travelers. Together, they have visited Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Nevada, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Washington state, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and Wyoming. They have lived in Germany, Idaho, California, Utah, Oregon, Indiana, and now Texas. Her husband also has had orders for a year in Thailand with the military, and subsequent orders for two weeks in the Philippines, Japan, Spain, Guam, and Hawaii. They have not decided where they will retire, but it will likely be some place that is not too hot nor too cold, with a stream and lots of trees. |
