Judith Amanda Kronberg was born March 11, 1940 in East Chicago, IN to Justin and Della (Wahlin) Kronberg. At the age of five years she moved with her family to Alexandria, MN and graduated from Alexandria High School. She attended California Lutheran Bible School in Los Angeles, CA, Lutheran Bible Institute in Minneapolis, MN and Dana College in Blair, NE where she graduated in 1963. After teaching school in Minneapolis for seven years and in Alaska for eight years, she attended the University of Minnesota and received her Master’s Degree in education in 1983. She then taught in Idaho for eight years, in San Francisco, San Jose and Marina, CA for five years and later in Greeley, CO where she also took care of Darlene Pearson in her home.