While we were living at the pig house, Dad accepted the minister of music and education position at Red Star Baptist Church, where Cy Smith was the pastor. It was in Cape, and for quite a while we made the thirty minute …Read More
View PostCHAPTER 20 -Living In The Pig House
Dad worked at all of his jobs for a while before we finally found a cheap house to live in. It was a small, run down house out in the country. The owner agreed to let us rent it for free if Dad would fix it up. It needed a lot of work, but …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Courts Jetton, Ed Behlmann, Joan Behlmann, John Robinson, Judy Jetton, Karen robinson, Lottie James, Rod Jetton, Ruth Ann Taylor, Son of a Preacher Man, Tom BehlmannCHAPTERS 18 & 19 Levelland, TX to Gordonville,MO
Our next house was in Levelland, Texas. Dad was the minister of music and youth under pastor David Evetts. We lived in a small house right next door to the church. Since we only lived there a short time, during the summer, I never even attended school there. I got my first lawn mowing …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Courts Jetton, DeSoto Missouri, Ed Behlmann, Gordonville Missouri, Jerry Lewis, Joachim Creek, Joan Behlmann, Joe Wigley, Judy Jetton, Lottie James, Mary Gans, Richard Gans, Rod Jetton, Ruth Ann Taylor, Son of a Preacher Man, Tom Behlmann, Wes LewisChapter 17- Petersburg, Texas in 1978
Brother Jessie Nave was the pastor at First Baptist Church and Dad was the minister of music and youth. It was not a big church, and Dad didn’t have a big salary, but Mom said that the people were so kind to us there, it was worth it. To help with the family …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Courts Jetton, Judy Jetton, Lottie James, Petersburg First Baptist Church, Rod Jetton, Ruth Ann Taylor, Son of a Preacher ManCHAPTER 15 & 16 -Back to Roswell, New Mexico… Again
We moved back to Roswell when Dad became a music evangelist. At about that time he was ordained as a preacher at New Bethel Baptist Church where we attended when he was home. The trees were not very big in the yard of our new house, so I couldn’t climb as much as I wanted, …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Courts Jetton, Joe Wigley, Judy Jetton, Lottie James, New Bethel Baptist Church, Rod Jetton, Ruth Ann Taylor, Son of a Preacher Man