My walk with God began at the moment of conception by the two loving parents, Mildred and J. D. Key. When he met her, she was only fifteen years old, but she was driving a team of workhorses pulling a cultivator in a field of cotton. As we heard them tell the story, they fell in love. My grandpa was against it at first. Mom had just spent almost two years in a tuberculosis facility up in the mountains just east of Bakersfield, California.

She was a very strong young lady, and she knew she was well enough to get married, so Grandpa gave in, and they were married. Then a few months later, I came along, and that brought me to the farm where I spent the next years of my life growing up into manhood.

At the age of seventeen, I decided to leave the farm and go into the air force, so that took me from the farm; but my walk with God has never stopped, and it continues until this day.