They prayed on their knees with their elbows in the chair every evening at her small house with no television, no radio, and very little contact with the outside world. Grandma has a special place in her heart for Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch and visited several times with her grandchildren. Rugged individualism, agriculture, a touch of the western lifestyle and taking full responsibility for one’s self were all consistent themes in her life. These were all bred into the fiber of the Koehn family because of the influence form this strong, durable woman. The poem “Footprints in the Sand” and the song “My Jesus Has Broad Shoulders” define her life and way of coping with the hard reality of those times.