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BORN: April 4, 1927, Phoenix EDUCATION: Arizona State U, B.S., 1951 FAMILY: Divorced; three children RELIGION: Seventh-day Adventist MILITARY: Navy, 1943-46 OCCUPATION: Cotton farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Arizona House, 1959-67; Arizona Senate, 1967-76; U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box F, Tolleson...
...Sherri was already drifting into another life. During college she converted to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church; she had been brought up a Methodist. She went to Michigan to teach high school, and married a student seven years her junior, David Jewell, who was also a Seventh-Day Adventist. Mosher did not trust David. The couple had a daughter, Kiri, but the marriage was turbulent. Mosher found that out when Sherri asked her to spend a month with them. "She was so sad," Mosher recalls. "Sherri was always a very up person. She was having such a hard time...
Sherri and David split up and finally divorced in 1984. Broke and distraught, Sherri took Kiri back to Hawaii. At a Seventh-Day Adventist church there, she was befriended by Marc Breault, a disciple of Vernon Howell's -- the leader later known as David Koresh. When Sherri was back in California and living with her mother, Breault "would call her at all hours of the night and talk for hours," says Mosher. Sherri was introduced to Koresh, who thrilled her with his preaching. "Are you telling me you think this guy is the Lamb of God? You think...
...GENERATION WOULD PUT IT, IN SEARCH MODE. SO much so that when Kathy Andrade, a spirited 24-year-old brought up in a close Seventh-Day Adventist family from Argentina, began investigating religious options, she even interviewed a local rabbi...
Schneider, 43, had been reared, like some of the cultists, as a Seventh Day Adventist. Unlike the others, he had been more than a congregant. Since childhood the blond, outgoing Wisconsinite had felt a calling. After earning a degree in religion from the University of Hawaii in 1986, he tried for a while to start his own church. He next applied for a job as minister at the local Adventist church. It was shortly after being turned down that he and his wife Judy met Marc Breault, then a recruiter for the Branch Davidians, an Adventist offshoot. Soon Schneider...