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Jeanette (Landes) Goad
C. Sheldon Layman
Margaret (Layman) Shank
the family. We moved to the farm that Lewis worked on in 1969 and purchased the farm in the spring of
1970 and a son, Landon, was born September 3, 1974. During those and ensuing years, I did my share of the
milking.
In 1985, that marriage ended in divorce. I worked for RMH on the maternity floor for 5 years and for
Virginia Mennonite Community from 1987-1990. In June of 1990, I moved back to Augusta County to care
for my dad who had suffered a major TIA. My youngest son and I lived with him for 2 years until he was well
enough to care for himself and I bought a house in Stuarts Draft.
I went to work for Augusta Medical Center—Home Health Dept in 1991, working with a quad for most of
the next 15 years. In June 2006, I retired from the hospital and in December went to work for Interim with
the same patient and worked for another 8 months, retiring in August 2007.
In 1993, I met Henry and we were married a year later at Cornerstone Church of Augusta. In April 1993,
I was privileged to be a part of the medical mission team that went to Albania for 2 weeks. In 1995, we were
again part of a mission team that went back to Albania. Since then we have been on numerous short term
teams to China, Africa, India and to the Gulf States following hurricane Katrina.
We were in Bay St Louis/Waveland, Mississippi, this summer on a short term mission team with the
youth and served as cooks for our group of 22 plus 42 persons from Ohio and for the staff members of Camp
Salvage or helpers of the staff there.
As you can see we are still active members of the Cornerstone Church of Augusta and will be until the
Lord moves us or calls us home.
God bless you all,
—Henry and Ellen (Kiser) Wyant
Since high school graduation I completed nursing, got married and had 3 sons. After living in Virginia for
11 years (in Blacksburg and Newport News), we moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and after 13 years there, we were
transferred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After 5 years there, we were transferred to Aiken, South Carolina, where
I currently reside. I worked off and on but was mostly a stay at home Mom. Frank died of cancer in 1994. In ‘97
I married Ken, inherited 5 children and 8 grandchildren AND the Smith’s finally had 2 little girl grandchildren.
Ken and I are both retired and I enjoy our grandchildren, traveling, gardening and watercolor painting.
—Jeannette Landes Goad
Marilee and I have been married for 46 years now and still live at 771 Hillview Drive in Dayton, Virginia,
22821. We were married one week after I was graduated with a BA from JMU in 1962 and moved to
Alexandria, Virginia, in October, 1962, where I took my first job as a corporate auditor with IRS. This allowed
me to have practical field work while I passed the CPA exam.
Marilee taught school until we had our children, Michele and Michael, who have blessed us with five
grandchildren, three boys and two girls who make our lives even happier than before.
We are still very active in our internet marketing business, Layman International and have no plans to retire,
as it has helped us to have a very different lifestyle of leadership training, education, and charitable enterprises.
We also travel globally with our business as is necessary which has allowed us to visit many parts of God’s
beautiful world.
Looking forward to visiting with the class of 1958 in October!
God bless and Godspeed!
—Sheldon Layman
Hello Classmates of ’58,
What an exciting 50 years it has been. I can’t believe retirement is at hand. So much has happened in 50
years but all in all, life has been good. During the years, I worked for several churches as secretary. First, it
was the United Methodist, then the Lutheran, and being Mennonite, religion was a good part of my life. Very
interesting! In 1988, I started working for W. J. Miller, CPA, and that has been and still is a very rewarding job.
I was married and enjoyed raising two children, Allen and Teresa. Allen lives at Bridgewater and owns and
operates a dairy farm. Teresa is married to Tom Shipe and they live in Augusta County. She works as a CNA
at an assisted living facility. Tom works for McKee Baking Company, so I get quite a few Little Debbie cakes. I
enjoy interacting with my grandchildren as they pursue their college educations. Jonathan graduated Magna
Cum Laude at Lynchburg College in May and is working toward his master’s degree in history. Jessica graduated
Cum Laude from Blue Ridge Community College and has transferred to James Madison University where she is