Butte High School reunion LJW

After a B.A. at Jamestown College (N.D.) and a year’s internship in eastern Oregon, I began my Master’s at San Francisco Seminary, finishing that in ’65. In 1963, following another internship in that city, Martha Iles and I were married. She was in grad school at U.C. Medical Center. In my final year at seminary I joined the march with Dr. King from Selma to Montgomery and a summer of voter registration work in Alabama.
We moved to Bozeman to our first jobs and to start our family, beginning with a son and daughter. Then in ’67 a move to eastern N.C. where I served a black Presbyterian Church and we added another daughter and son, while Martha helped begin a school of nursing at the local college.
In ’74 back we came to good ol’ Montana for a 12 year stay in Anaconda to pastor, organize peace work and economic justice with the smelter closure and ARCO pullout. Martha helped begin Anaconda Pintlar Hospice, and then in ’84 began her PhD program at U. of Washington. Two years later, I joined her in Seattle where we’ve been ever since. I served two small inner city churches, was on the regional staff of our church and retired in 2001. Martha has for several years directed the graduate Nurse Practitioner program at Seattle Pacific U.
We have eight grandchildren scattered from Seattle/Tacoma to Helena to NYC…and that’s the most fun of all!