Meet Your Kiwanian

Bennie and Brenda Eaton presented the Meet Your Kiwanian program on Tuesday.  Both Bennie and Brenda were born and raised in Oklahoma.  Bennie’s childhood was spent on a family farm.  The farm is a homestead from when Oklahoma became a state.  Bennie shared pictures of him on the tractor at age 5, with his first gun at age 6, and with his first horse.  His education included an eighth grade class of only 4 students and a high school graduating class of 25.  He went on from that small school to attend Northern Oklahoma Junior College, Oklahoma State, and Kansas State.  He moved to Greenfield to be a part of Eli Lilly and Company and later Dow Elanco.  He retired from Dow in 1999.

Brenda told the Kiwanians that her experience was similar to Bennie’s, but in her town she went to school using a car and not a horse.  While studying English and Library Science at Oklahoma State, she met Bennie.  She taught in Perry, Oklahoma while Bennie completed his education.  When they moved to Greenfield she taught English and Journalism at Knightstown, Eastern Hancock, and Greenfield-Central.  She retired from G-C in 1999.

Bennie and Brenda have a son and daughter and 6 grandchildren.