Jerry experienced God’s call to preach in 1959 and graduated from Drake Seminary in 1967. He has been the pastor at churches in Leon, IA (4 years), Dexter and Pitzer, IA (11 years), and Toledo-Tama, IA (13 years). After retiring in Ogden, IA in 1995, Jerry served as Interim Pastor in several churches, until his wife Mary needed more care. They moved to Fairmont in March 2012. Jerry and Mary have been married 62 years and have two sons and a daughter, ten grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.