Norma Lee

Debbie Drayton earned a degree in Special/Elementary Education from Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University. She has a Masters in Early Childhood Education from NAU as well. Debbie married Jeff in 1978 and when raising their young children, they took on the task of becoming houseparents in a Childrens home; taking care of teenage boys in Mesa Arizona. When their son and daughter turned school age, the family moved to a different location and Debbie worked at a Montessori school part time as she continued her education. A few years later she entered the public school setting as a teacher in the elementary schools. Over the next 23 years, she taught children with special needs, second and first graders. Her and Jeff raised their children in a mountain town and besides investing in their careers and family, spent hours volunteering at a local church. Debbie has a passion for teaching children and as a hobby directed plays and skits at the church in which the family attended. Recently she collaborated with a few other women and starting a Special Needs ministry at this same location. She is now a grandmother of seven.