Born days before the 1929 stock market crash, Harold E. Kieler grew up in Kansas during the depression, the dust bowl era and World War II. Following graduation at the University o...ver maisBorn days before the 1929 stock market crash, Harold E. Kieler grew up in Kansas during the depression, the dust bowl era and World War II. Following graduation at the University of Illinois he served 4 years in the navy during the Korean War.
While completing two graduate professional degrees at Vanderbilt University, he married Lorine Martin and they raised three sons.
During 40 years of service as a United Methodist minister leader, he participated in the civil rights struggles of the sixties and witnessed eight decades of technological and social revolutions.ver menos