Killeen Partridge

Killeen Partridge, the founder and president of SOS, is a homeschooled ninth grader (but not for long; she’s busily working on doing all of high school in two years. Don’t mess with this overachiever.) She is the Historian of her 4-H club and loves to do lots of community service with the other members. Every year Killeen looks forward to visiting the Veterans’ Home of Wyoming with her club and interacting with the veterans.

Killeen’s other hobbies are training her two Shelties and sewing — two categories that she has had a lot of success with at county and state fair. This summer, Killeen is looking forward to helping teach a sewing camp at Trail’s End Ranch, and to being an assistant counselor at Camp Elohim, both Christian camps. She is also getting ready to produce a stage version of Newsies in the fall for her homeschooling group.

Killeen’s goal with SOS is to let our soldiers know that they’re not forgotten and that they are being supported in what they do. Killeen would like to thank her family and her friends for their support and encouragement. There would be no SOS without them!

Charlene Pfaff

Charlene Pfaff, SOS’s co-founder, (that’s Foff, not Faff, if you please) is 19 years old. She has been blessed with one horse, two dogs, two cats, one parakeet, and seven fish. Her hobbies include horseback riding, reading, and helping others. She also enjoys singing, rearranging her room, and working hard. She is in college, studying to be a veterinary technician. In case you can’t tell, she likes animals. A lot.

Charlene’s favorite time of year is fall. She really enjoys the cool weather and the leaves changing color on the trees. Her favorite music? Christian country, but she’s been known to enjoy the Trans-Siberian Orchestra too.

Rebecca Morgan

Rebecca Morgan is 17 years old and a homeschooled eleventh grader. Her hobbies are riding horses, eating raspberries, and studying her Bible (not in that order). Her favorite saying is "I don’t care." She hopes to someday be a missionary, taking God’s Word to places where Bibles are banned. Right now, though, her focus is on letting God use her in any way to make a difference.

Rebecca is thrilled to work with SOS because she has a grandfather, an uncle, and other family members who have served our country in the armed forces — she has had a close look at the price of freedom. SOS gave her a way to give back and say thank you to others who have fought for our freedom.

Patricia Morgan

Patricia Morgan is Rebecca’s 18 year old older sister. (They invented the term ranch girl for this gal.) She’s a homeschooled high school graduate this year. Her hobbies include riding and training horses, hunting, reading, and camping in the mountains. She works on the ranch where her father is the manager, and she feels blessed by God to be where she can enjoy the wide open country He made.

"I had wanted to help our soldiers," Patricia says, "but until Killeen told me her idea I did not know what to do or where to start." She feels very strongly about supporting our soldiers because they are the ones fighting for our freedom — freedom of speech, of the press, and freedom of worship. But as we support them, she says, we must not give up the fight here at home; we must continue doing our part to keep our country’s policies in line with God’s standards of right and wrong. And we must remember to thank those veterans who are no longer fighting, she points out; "They still played a significant role in keeping our country free."