Bio, 2014: Linda Lee Klingman
After the Bio for Carolyn Abbott mine will sound like run Spot run. See Jane jump.After two years at O.S.U majoring in business instead of music I began a secretarial/data processing career which took me to Washington D.C. in the Office of Legal Counsel, Seattle Washington and Colorado Springs. During this stage of my life my Christian faith began to deepen and grow through mentoring I received from a Christian Organization called The Navigators. After a year at Oregon State with the Navs I met my husband Ken, whom I married in 1971. Together we continued to serve with the Navs in Mankato, Mn. helping collegians grow in their Christian walks. We then studied Spanish in Costa Rica for a year and lived in Caracas, Venezuela where our oldest son Kyle was born.
In 1978 my husband and I entered the business world and moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa where our youngest son Kevin was born. My husband worked in a medical clinic as personnel director and then got his Masters in counseling and counseled for 14 years and then became an associate Pastor at our church. I had a wallpapering business and was in the sandwich generation taking care of teenagers and elderly parents on both sides. My father had Alzheimers disease and at the same time my brother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It proved to be very interesting and challenging but I learned a lot and have a passion to help people with mental illness. Both my parents have died as well as my brother a year ago.
After we retired we were asked if we would go back on staff with the Navs and help students at the University of Northern Iowa which we have been doing for the last four years and enjoying it even if we have to take naps to keep up.
I enjoy reading, playing golf, fishing (especially trout in Red Lodge, Montana). I have enjoyed singing, being in plays, playing the part of a character named Mrs. Klenchfist who lived in Mr. Rogers Real Neighborhood. She was a loud cigar-smoking, crusty old broad who didn’t like Mr. Rogers or his song. :O}
An interesting side note: our son Kyle works for the International Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Iowa which is a part of the Museum in Stillwater and gets to see Rusty Shaw and Gerald Briscoe several times a year.
©2009 Stillwater High School Class of 1964