Krystine’s “gone through every book” at Faith & Life hand-coloring pages for distribution by the Hesston Senior Center to elders.
From third grade through high school, she was active in 4-H and one year baked a cake under her mother’s exacting guidance as a submission to the State Fair in Hutchison—her first and last attempt at cake baking!
Her father commuted to work at Boeing and her mother, a homemaker, raised Krystine and her older brother in North Newton where they attended local schools and were nurtured in the Mennonite faith. First Mennonite Church in Newton is now Krystine’s home church.
She earned her BA degree at Bethel College in elementary education and continued studies at Kansas State University, earning a Master’s in education-learning disabilities. Krystine taught twenty-four years in Topeka and Derby schools.
Having lived singly most of her life, Krystine has been blessed with the companionship of beloved canine pets adopted from Kansas Humane in Wichita. A two-year old smooth coat Chihuahua, “Baby,” came to live with Krystine at the age of eight months old one-and-a-half years ago. At that time she weighed in at a lean seven pounds; now she’s up to eleven pounds (and really enjoys the chicken treats Krystine adds to her food).
Besides her coloring projects, Krystine volunteers at Mennonite Central Committee in North Newton processing donations that are distributed to associated missions. Regular trips to our local library provide Krystine with selections of her preferred reading matter—non-fiction. For the last couple years she has engaged in the “pitch” games offered at the Senior Center.
Being a great-great aunt Krystine enjoys enriching family connections in addition to the friendships she has been establishing during the ten years she has lived on our campus at Kansas Christian Home.