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Randy and Deb live
almost within walking distance of Mt. Olive on the quiet street of
Hawthorne. They have lived in Oregon since 1992.
Randy was born in
Seattle, WA. His Father was a government worker however, which required
the family to move frequently. Finally in Phoenix, Randy’s Mother said,
“Enough”. So that is where the family settled.
Deb was born in
Pittsburg, PA. Her family also settled in Phoenix, AZ. Randy and Deb
met when they both worked at American Express there.
They were married in
1975 in Phoenix, AZ at the Methodist Church, the Church they attended.
As more and more Californians moved to Arizona, Smiths and most of their
extended families, decided to move to Oregon.
Smiths have two
grown children:
1.
Zane Smith is
twenty-five years old and married. He is studying for his Master’s
Degree in East Portland to become a minister.
2.
Dean Smith is eighteen
years old and a Senior in High School. He attends the Youth Group and
Sunday School at UCC in Forest Grove.
Smiths visited
several Methodist and other churches, all of them going in many
directions, some quite liberal. They never felt really comfortable at
any of them. Their son Zane continued to urge them to come to our
Lutheran Mt. Olive Church and here, hopefully, they have found their
true home Church.
Randy works for the
Water Treatment Plant in Forest Grove above Forest Gale Heights.
Deb is at OHSU and
works at OGI, Oregon Graduate Institute, as a computer desk top support
(when it breaks, she fixes it).
Son Dean has some
interesting and strenuous hobbies, as only the young with energy can.
He loves drumming. He plays in bands, not professionally, only for
pleasure and joy of it. Dean, perhaps wisely, feels if he had to do it
as work, he would lose something very special that drumming means to
him.
Dean and his
Father’s hobby together is Remote Control cars.
Beyond that Dean has
an eighteen year old’s love of real cars and playing computer games.
Snowboarding is another hobby if Oregon’s snowfall will cooperate.
Randy’s hobby is
golf and his shared hobby, RC cars with his son. Randy is a wannabee
skier and this is he and Deb’s new venture.
Deb’s hobbies have
included oil paintings, decoupage, and piano when time permits. Her
paintings are beautiful. How, given time, gardening is her
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