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William Conn

Graduated from Texas A&M in 1963 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and have spent most of my working career in machine design for oilfield and mining drilling equipment. Work has moved me around a bit from Dallas to North Carolina, to Midland to Oklahoma, Kansas and finally to Iowa, and has required quite a bit of international travel. Work has required that I go undergroud, the deepest was 8450 feet in Lead, South Dakota. I have been underground in Canada, England, France, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Australia and probably half of the states here at home. Have worked on various tunnelling projects in US, Germany and Sweden.

Met and Toni LaJean Summers and married her in June of 1960 at Polytechnic Presbyterian Church, in Fort Worth. Our oldest son, Jim, was born while we were still at Texas A&M. Steven, the youngest was born in Dallas. We now have 6 grandchildren, 4 boys and 2 girls, who all live on the East Coast in either South Carolina or Virginia.

While in North Carolina I began participating in church work by serving as a pulpit supply, and was commissioned as a Commission Lay Pastor by the Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma and served as a pastor in Beaver, Oklahoma for 15 months.

Now serving as a pastor for Gibson and White Oak Presbyterian Churches in Iowa since 2001 while continuing to work full time as a Design Engineer for Vermeer Manufacturing in Pella, Iowa. Love my work! Never seem to arrive at a point where I wonder what I shall do next.

Being a pastor does have it rewards as I recently got the pleasure and priviledge of officiating at our oldest sons wedding.

When we retire, we shall probably move to South Carolina where we will be a whole lot closer to the rest of our family.

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