I, Nancy Jo Magnison Winfrey, was born August 11, 1956, at Medicine Lodge, 
  the eldest of four daughters born to J-Paul and Mildred Magnison. We girls 
  were raised on a farm southwest of Medicine lodge in the Gyp Hills.
     I attended Dry Creek school for six years and attended Hardtner for
  seventh grade. After Dry Creek closed in 1969, my sisters and I attended
  Medicine Lodge High School in 1974. During my school years I learned to play
  the piano, and it has become one of my most enjoyable pastimes. While in
  high school, I played for Sunday school and the organ for the First Baptist
  Church.
     In May, 1976, I received a diploma in Associate General Studies and a
  certificate in Child Care from Dodge City Community College. My sophomore
  year at DCCC, I met my future husband, Darrel Leon Winfrey, of Plains, Kansas.
     Leon was born February 20, 1957, Meade, Kansas. He is the second child
  born to Darrell and Vera Mae Winfrey. Leon has an older sister, Karla Kay,
  and a younger brother, Troy.
     Leon graduated from Southwester Heights in 1975 and then attended DCCC.
  While in college he was a member of the DCCC Rodeo Team and still enjoys
  individual and team roping with his friends.
     After graduataion, I lived in Dodge City and worked for the Cimarron
  Insurance Company in Cimarron, Kansas. Later I worked for The Daily Globe
  in Dodge City. In January, 1977, I returned home to live and help with
  our wedding preparations.
     Leon and I were married March 5, 1977, at the First Baptist Church,
  Medicine Lodge.
     We have made our home eight miles north of Plains, where Leon works
  for his dad and rents some land of our own. We have grown irrigated corn, 
  milo, wheat and in 1979 we grew our first soybeans.
     Since our marriage I have worked as an assistant for Dr. Cummins, a 
  dentist in LIberal; as a bookkeeper fo the West Plains Implemant Company,
  Plains; and am presently employed by Southwester Heights High School. For
  the 1979-80 school year there are five people working at SWH that have lived
  and either worked for or attended school at MLHS. I also am part time
  organist for the United Methodist Church in Plains, and my hobbies include 
  flowers and houseplants.
     During the harvest seasons I help Leon by hauling the grain into the 
  elevator at Plains. My father-in-law told me if I could drive loaded trucks
  over the hills in Barber County, I could surely handle their tandems on the
  flat land of western Kansas.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 492 
     Submitted by: Nancy Winfrey