Andrew Dwight Seneker (called Dwight) was born 1 May 1913 in Lawrence County, Missouri and died there in Mount Vernon on 27 Dec 1998.
His mother died at age 34, on his ninth birthday. Though her death certificate listed the innocuous "spinal stenosis" as the cause of death, he and his father believed her symptoms mirrored what would come to be called Lou Gehrig's disease.
Just before she died, she the only function she retained was to move her eyes. She moved her them to the organ in the back of the room. Dwight's father brought a hymnal and turned pages until she blinked her eyes. The song was "God will Take Care of You." She then looked at Dwight. He believes that she was telling him that God would take care of him when she was gone. Dwight went to live for a time with his grandfather and a maiden aunt (his grandmother had died the prior year).
Dwight went to State Teachers College in Springfield, MO for two years and then taught school for 3 years and also worked for Carnation Milk Company. He met his wife in the First Presbyterian Church Choir and youth group, and married Sarah Elizabeth (Lib) Orr on 12 May 1934. They had three children -- twins Donald and Douglas (born in 1935) and Sue Ann (born in 1938).
The family lived in Rogers, Arkansas for a time after the twins were born, and in 1938 the family was in Seymour, MO when daughter Sue was born. During World War II he was a government radio inspector, in Philadelphia, and he was a part-time park policeman there as well. He then got a bachelor's degree in physics from Park College in Parkville, MO. He obtained his bachelor of theology from the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
There was not a piece of machinery or an electronic device he could not fix. He made a record player from various parts while the family lived in Philadelphia. He used thorns of a plant because you could not get steel points for a record player during the war. He got surplus Army components and created the cockpit of an airplane for his children in a closet in Philadelphia.
As a Presbyterian minister, Dwight served parishes in Kansas, Lexington, IL and Missouri. He later preached at the Ozark Prairie ("Brick") Church, 4 miles from Mount Vernon, which his wife's family had helped found in 1854. Dwight died in December 1998, having suffered a series of strokes after a heart surgery earlier in the fall.
His mother died at age 34, on his ninth birthday. Though her death certificate listed the innocuous "spinal stenosis" as the cause of death, he and his father believed her symptoms mirrored what would come to be called Lou Gehrig's disease.
Just before she died, she the only function she retained was to move her eyes. She moved her them to the organ in the back of the room. Dwight's father brought a hymnal and turned pages until she blinked her eyes. The song was "God will Take Care of You." She then looked at Dwight. He believes that she was telling him that God would take care of him when she was gone. Dwight went to live for a time with his grandfather and a maiden aunt (his grandmother had died the prior year).
Dwight went to State Teachers College in Springfield, MO for two years and then taught school for 3 years and also worked for Carnation Milk Company. He met his wife in the First Presbyterian Church Choir and youth group, and married Sarah Elizabeth (Lib) Orr on 12 May 1934. They had three children -- twins Donald and Douglas (born in 1935) and Sue Ann (born in 1938).
The family lived in Rogers, Arkansas for a time after the twins were born, and in 1938 the family was in Seymour, MO when daughter Sue was born. During World War II he was a government radio inspector, in Philadelphia, and he was a part-time park policeman there as well. He then got a bachelor's degree in physics from Park College in Parkville, MO. He obtained his bachelor of theology from the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
There was not a piece of machinery or an electronic device he could not fix. He made a record player from various parts while the family lived in Philadelphia. He used thorns of a plant because you could not get steel points for a record player during the war. He got surplus Army components and created the cockpit of an airplane for his children in a closet in Philadelphia.
As a Presbyterian minister, Dwight served parishes in Kansas, Lexington, IL and Missouri. He later preached at the Ozark Prairie ("Brick") Church, 4 miles from Mount Vernon, which his wife's family had helped found in 1854. Dwight died in December 1998, having suffered a series of strokes after a heart surgery earlier in the fall.
Andrew Dwight Seneker (called Dwight) was born 1 May 1913 in Lawrence County, Missouri and died there in Mount Vernon on 27 Dec 1998.
His mother died at age 34, on his ninth birthday. Though her death certificate listed the innocuous "spinal stenosis" as the cause of death, he and his father believed her symptoms mirrored what would come to be called Lou Gehrig's disease.
Just before she died, she the only function she retained was to move her eyes. She moved her them to the organ in the back of the room. Dwight's father brought a hymnal and turned pages until she blinked her eyes. The song was "God will Take Care of You." She then looked at Dwight. He believes that she was telling him that God would take care of him when she was gone. Dwight went to live for a time with his grandfather and a maiden aunt (his grandmother had died the prior year).
Dwight went to State Teachers College in Springfield, MO for two years and then taught school for 3 years and also worked for Carnation Milk Company. He met his wife in the First Presbyterian Church Choir and youth group, and married Sarah Elizabeth (Lib) Orr on 12 May 1934. They had three children -- twins Donald and Douglas (born in 1935) and Sue Ann (born in 1938).
The family lived in Rogers, Arkansas for a time after the twins were born, and in 1938 the family was in Seymour, MO when daughter Sue was born. During World War II he was a government radio inspector, in Philadelphia, and he was a part-time park policeman there as well. He then got a bachelor's degree in physics from Park College in Parkville, MO. He obtained his bachelor of theology from the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
There was not a piece of machinery or an electronic device he could not fix. He made a record player from various parts while the family lived in Philadelphia. He used thorns of a plant because you could not get steel points for a record player during the war. He got surplus Army components and created the cockpit of an airplane for his children in a closet in Philadelphia.
As a Presbyterian minister, Dwight served parishes in Kansas, Lexington, IL and Missouri. He later preached at the Ozark Prairie ("Brick") Church, 4 miles from Mount Vernon, which his wife's family had helped found in 1854. Dwight died in December 1998, having suffered a series of strokes after a heart surgery earlier in the fall.
His mother died at age 34, on his ninth birthday. Though her death certificate listed the innocuous "spinal stenosis" as the cause of death, he and his father believed her symptoms mirrored what would come to be called Lou Gehrig's disease.
Just before she died, she the only function she retained was to move her eyes. She moved her them to the organ in the back of the room. Dwight's father brought a hymnal and turned pages until she blinked her eyes. The song was "God will Take Care of You." She then looked at Dwight. He believes that she was telling him that God would take care of him when she was gone. Dwight went to live for a time with his grandfather and a maiden aunt (his grandmother had died the prior year).
Dwight went to State Teachers College in Springfield, MO for two years and then taught school for 3 years and also worked for Carnation Milk Company. He met his wife in the First Presbyterian Church Choir and youth group, and married Sarah Elizabeth (Lib) Orr on 12 May 1934. They had three children -- twins Donald and Douglas (born in 1935) and Sue Ann (born in 1938).
The family lived in Rogers, Arkansas for a time after the twins were born, and in 1938 the family was in Seymour, MO when daughter Sue was born. During World War II he was a government radio inspector, in Philadelphia, and he was a part-time park policeman there as well. He then got a bachelor's degree in physics from Park College in Parkville, MO. He obtained his bachelor of theology from the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
There was not a piece of machinery or an electronic device he could not fix. He made a record player from various parts while the family lived in Philadelphia. He used thorns of a plant because you could not get steel points for a record player during the war. He got surplus Army components and created the cockpit of an airplane for his children in a closet in Philadelphia.
As a Presbyterian minister, Dwight served parishes in Kansas, Lexington, IL and Missouri. He later preached at the Ozark Prairie ("Brick") Church, 4 miles from Mount Vernon, which his wife's family had helped found in 1854. Dwight died in December 1998, having suffered a series of strokes after a heart surgery earlier in the fall.
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