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A Family Tale of Education And Childbirth

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Daniel and Bunny McArthur tell the story of their experiences in childbirth. Then, after the youngest of 6 children was in kindergarten, Bunny decided to finish college- at the same time as 3 of her children.

"All the rest of our children were miracle babies. Jeff was 3 weeks early, we didn't know anything wrong," Daniel said.

"They told us he had one of 3 incurable diseases- one was congenial leukemia, and a couple others that were incurable and that he would die before he was a week old.
"So we did a lot of soul searching, met with our religious leader, had others come down. We actually named him in the hospital, blessed him, he had some blood exchanges and they gradually ruled out each one and after a couple weeks, we took him home."

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.