Living Individual - Details withheldNotes for LEE IRVING KLINE, JR:
Lee is from Cheyenne County and was born in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. His dad was a big rancher. He later moved to Florence, Colorado. Lee was doing ranch work and working at Steel Mill in Pueblo. After we were married we raised turkeys and chickens and hogs. After about 4 years at Florence, we moved to Waxahachie, Texas. We stayed there 9 months, and went to Southwestern Bible College, both of us. Lee worked at Dallas making plastic dishes melmac kind. I worked at a restaurant.
We left Waxahachie to go pastor an Assembly of God church in Cheyenne Wells for 3 years, 3 months.
We were voted in as pastors of the Assembly of God church in Los Animas, Colorado. We pastored there almost 2 years. We then left there.
We lived 2 years at Lancaster, Texas during school and went back to Bible College to finish our schooling at Waxahachie. I worked as janitor at girls dorm. Lee started learning carpenter work and worked this time at school for a Christian carpenter. He learned the trade while he finished his schooling and graduated with a B. A. degree.
We left there and came back to Colorado to our home at Florence. We lived there 1 year. A year of rest at our country home.
We came to Walsenburg to start a church in August 1972 and have been here 9 years now. Lee pastor's two churches, one in Aguilar, Colorado, 20 miles south of here. It's name is International Holiness. We have a small group there. Our main church is the First Assembly of God in Walsenburg, Colorado. It's a small church too. Two very nice groups and all are loving and kind.
I am a house wife and worker in the church work with Lee. I help out in the ministry and counseling people. I work with children and love children and people very much.
Lee sings and plays the guitar. I sing with Lee sometimes. I play the piano a little. David sings special songs with friends. Gary is a trombone player. He has played it 3 or 4 years now. Gary and David are top students and love to learn. They read lots.
Excerpt from a letter written to Dorothy Paasch by Hazel Kline on Nov. 6, 1981
