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Victor Hoehn

Personal History and Background... I have had three separate lives, so to speak.

Life One: Wife number one lasted eight years from 1964 to 1972 when she succumbed to childhood diabetes. I had not finished college, even though I wanted to be a teacher of Spanish and German. When she died in 1972, I stopped going to ASU and concentrated on work. From 1963 to 1982 I worked with my dad and became his partner in a wrecking yard business in Glendale which we sold in 1982.

Life Two: Wife number two started in 1973. We had four kids; two through adoption. After the business was sold in 1982, I worked at another wrecking yard in Tempe for about a year. In 1983 we were called by God to go to Nogales Mexico as missionaries to open an orphanage to adopt orphans to the U.S. After two years, the orphanage closed due to no (adoptable) children as well as problems in our marriage. By May of 1986 our divorce was final. I had already started taking classes part-time at the U of A to become a teacher of Spanish and History. I finally graduated in August 1986 and immediately started teaching History that month.

Life Three: Started in July of 1986 when I visited a missionary from Phoenix whom I had met while delivering donated food, on several occasions, to the church where my future wife Kay, was feeding over 200 kids daily in Nogales, Mexico. Kay and I were married in October of that year. I taught U.S. and World History for two years. I received my masters degree from N.A.U. in bilingual-multicultural education and taught Spanish fifteen more years.

Here we are, after over twenty-five years of almost perfect married bliss, enjoying retired life. YEAH RIGHT...! That is not really true because we have never stopped doing mission work which we love the most. We work with a group called Faith Outreach for Christ, helping to establish and support churches in Mexico. We have been members of the Gideons International, distributing bibles for over 19 years. We also interpret English to Spanish with a jail ministry called, Unshackled for Christ during the last four years. Sometimes I even get to preach. I even get to preach sometimes in Mexico. Wow... WHAT A BLESSING!

After retiring in 2003, I continued as a substitute teacher and recently have been a four-day-a-week part-time counselor at Pierson Vocational High School in the same school district were I started in 1986 in Nogales Arizona. I am really looking forward to the end of this school year (2012) so that next year I can return to being a substitute teacher one or two days a week when I can choose which days to work, if any!

Since 2004, my wife has had a personal fight for life against cancer, which we are winning. I no longer have to be her full-time caregiver as was necessary in 2010 to early 2011, even though she had another round of radiation treatments in January of this year (2012).

Elaine: Thanks for the e-mails... I greatly appreciate reading them.

Well, that pretty well updates my life after WHS up to today. I would love to talk to any of you in the Valley. My home phone number is 520-281-7786... Cell 520-604-6739.

Victor L. Hoehn

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