On February 9th, 1935 Wanda Lou Colton was born to Edwin Cheever Colton and Amanda Lucille Curtis Colton at the Colton family farm between Dover and Loyal, Oklahoma. Her mother relayed it was a difficult delivery and there were two doctors from Dover and one from Kingfisher to deliver her.When she was five along with two siblings, Larry and LaVeta, they moved to California where they stayed with her father’s sister and husband Hazel and Theron Webber with their three children. Wanda remembered it being a very full house and having her first peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They soon moved to San Diego, CA, living in a small apartment when another child, Eddie Ray was born. Not long after World War II began her parents decided it would be best to move back and settled in Newton, Kansas, where Karen was born. While living there she met a lady who talked with her about going to church which was close to their home, she began attending Sunday School and loved going. It was the beginning o...
