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I married Clarence Hartson on August 16, 1980. We have four children and four grandsons. When we were first married I worked at McDonalds and Clarence worked at Anchor Metals. We moved to Highland, IL and then to Trenton, IL for a little over a year and then moved back to Ft. Madison and started up a dairy, at the old Freesmeier Dairy across from the hospital, for almost twenty years and then we sold out to my cousin and went to work there. My husband had a symptomatic heart attack caused by sleep apnea and two weeks later I rolled my truck going to work on black ice on an overpass. Nothing that eight surgeries couldn't fix. I couldn't go back to dairy farming, so I went to SCC for two years and earned an AAS degree in Accounting. During the time I was going to college we moved in with my mom, as her health was declining, and she had lost her eyesight. While caring for her, I was looking for a job. While getting strawberries at Richers Trucking on a Thursday I had asked if they had any openings or knew of any and they said not at the time. They called me two days later and asked if I could start on Monday. I worked there in the office for eleven years and then I got a job in the Lee County Treasurer office. Two months later I became the Records Manager in the Lee County Engineer Office and about three years later I became the Program Manager. My husband and I volunteer at the Green Bay Chapter of Izaak Walton, where he is the President and I have been the Secretary/Treasurer, but now I am just the Treasurer.
