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Family Beliefs

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Beliefs are overall the most important for our family and continue to show up in the newest generation of Rastetter children, but work ethic and occupations have also influenced family dynamics. My great-grandfather served in the army for the first two years of my grandfather’s life, while his wife stayed at home with my grandfather. When he returned home, my great-grandmother continued to work as a housewife and Will went to work at the General Motors factory, DELCO (Rastetter). My grandfather remembers them never having extra money but always having what they needed. He remembers his mother coming home from work and when she would start to come down the hill by their house, she would turn off her car to save gas. He also recalled when growing up, his family would only go to town on Friday evenings and he would only have fifty cents to spend for himself. It was not until 1960, his home finally had indoor plumbing (Rastetter). My grandfather did chores around the house growing up, his parents wanted to teach him that hard worked creates success and opportunities. In high school, my grandfather worked from his sophomore year of high school on, in a local factory doing simple jobs. He knew from a young age how he hated school and knew he would not go to college, but he did know that he wanted to work at the DELCO factory like his father (Rastetter).
After working at DELCO for a short time, Mike met Barbara Patterson who worked at Community Hospital, who became his wife on

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