Harlan is the eldest son of Harvey and Margaret Shippy, and until grown
  resided on the farm northwest of Woodbine. Harlan graduated from Woodbine
  Rural High School in 1948. In 1952 he received his B.A. degree from Bethany
  Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. Harlan also graduated with a B.D.
  degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City , Missouri in 1952
  with additional studies. This was later changed to a Master's in Divinity
  degree in 1970. Harlan also has a master's in counseling from San Diego State
  University in San Diego, California and is currently pursuing a PhD. degree
  at United States International University in San Diego.
       Harlan is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene and has
  pastored churches in Missouri, Texas and California. He served six years of
  active duty as a Navy champlain, 1961 to 1967, and continued in the Reserves
  until retirement in 1981. From August 1981 to September 1983 Harlan served
  two years as Protestant champlain for the Kwajalein Missile Range in the
  Marshall Islands. Other than when overseas, Harlan and his wife Sarah have
  primarily resided in San Diego since 1962 when he has worked for more than
  ten years as a counselor. Harlan holds a California marriage, family and child
  counselor license and for the past year has been a general partner with Gordon
  Bear in owning and operating Counseling Ministries in La Mesa.
       Harlan is a clinical member of the California Association of Marriage
  and Family Theripists, and the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education,
  Inc., as well as a member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
       In April 1954 Harlan married Sarah Steffan of Minot, North Dakota. Their
  children are Shelley Dawn and Wesley Eugene. Shelley, who is  now a Navy officer,
  is married to LCDR David Marshall and they reside in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
  Wes and his six-year-old son, Tyler, live in San Diego, where Wes is in 
  construction work.   
               
  Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987, 
          Woodbine through the years pg. 135