When Glenn was deployed overseas as a member of the Air National Guard in 1968, she and their six-month-old son Steve moved to the farm of Glenn’s parents near Carmel. Glenn was called up after the USS Pueblo incident between the U.S. and North Korea, but went to Vietnam rather than Korea. Betty said, “I lived with his parents for a year when Glenn was in Vietnam. His folks were wonderful people and they took good care of us.” She would send lots of baby photos of Steve to Glenn, and he wrote letters home every day. Several years later, the couple decided to return to Iowa even though Glenn was making a good living in Nebraska as a manager for National Disposal. “Steve was about four or five at that time. We had a neighbor up the block from us in Omaha who had a 12-year-old son. And this 12-year-old was on drugs. I said, ‘That’s it, it’s too close,’” said Glenn. “So I called my dad and asked him if I could start a dairy. He talked to a dairy dealer named Sam Wester and asked him ‘What do you think of this idea?’ And Sam kind of kicked the dirt and said, ‘Yeah, John, it’s a good idea and you’d be a damn fool if you don't go 25 more cows and go with him.’ That's where it all started, with a 50-cow dairy.” Betty utilized her childhood experience on her family’s dairy to help. About five years later, his father retired, and then he died in 1983 of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Another five
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