Family Update from the Driskells

Here is a short update of the Driskells for the last 20 years. We moved from Sun Valley to the church in La Grange, Texas and stayed there 13 years—long enough for Len to grow up and finish college. After we left La Grange in 1999, we moved to Rockdale to work with the church there. After two years, we then moved to Spring Hill, Florida for four years. In June 2005, we just wanted to come home, so we came back to Texas. We settled in a borrowed trailer in a trailer park owned by a friend from the La Grange church. We helped her run the park for several months, and then moved to an apartment outside of town near Schulenburg. For about a year, Leonard went to work for Lifeline Chaplaincy doing PR work in the Houston area, East Texas and western Louisiana. Then a friend from the Rockdale church offered us a job managing this storage facility. We opened up in November, 2007, and will probably be here as long as we can work since we could not find a church who wanted a preacher who was 70+. We celebrated our 52nd wedding anniversary on Dec. 21, 2008. We are members at the Elgin Church, where we had made many friends while at the La Grange church.

Jeannie, our oldest, is still living in Spring with husband, Joe. Joe is working at the same place repairing small jets for GE near Bush International although it has changed owners several times. Krisa, their oldest, will graduate from U. T. in May with a law degree. She already has a job waiting in Houston. Their son, Bryan, is also living in the Houston area.

Dennis and Tammy are living in Austin, but are divorced. Dennis works in the records department with Child Protective Services. Their two kids, Nathan and Nicole, are grown now. Nathan married this past year after graduating from ACU with a degree in artistic design. Nicole will also graduate from ACU, with a degree in counseling. I think she plans to stay in Abilene and may have a job waiting.

David and family live in Birmingham, Alabama where he is in administration with BellSouth. He married a local girl named Mary, and they also have a boy and a girl. David, Jr., the oldest, is in his second year at Harding. I think he has just decided to become a dentist. Sarah Jane is almost through high school, and also plans to go to Harding, where mom and dad both graduated.

Karin is living in Littleton, Colorado, with husband, Randy Chamberlain. She has one step-son, Ryan, who lives in North Little Rock with wife, Emily. Karin is an executive administrator with an insurance company. Randy is retired from the Air Force and works in car parts.

Len is a Chaplain in the Navy (as of this past summer) and studied Bible at ACU. He is stationed in Norfolk, Virginia for the moment with Kara and their three girls: Rachel, 5/Kindergarten, Bethany, 3, and Naomi, 8 months, who just learned to crawl. Len will be shipping out in April in a Destroyer with approximately 250 men/women to minister to. Please keep him and his girls in your prayers.