And this is the one, our daughter, Nancy, who has set off this family frenzy of blogging! Thanks, Nancy! When Nancy came into our lives Betty and I were in the dark valley of sadness and despondency. Almost immediately after we had learned that Betty was expecting, we lost our four-year old son, Dan. He was the elder of twin sons. Dean is his surviving brother. All the joy of expecting a new child was swallowed up by our daily sadness. But then on the seventh day of May of a certain year, in Jos, Nigeria, all the joy we had not experienced came bursting into our lives...Nancy Evelyn Hall. She filled our lives with joy then and has done so continually ever since. She and her husband, John, have two children who, likewise, bring them great joy as they do us, the grandparents.