Ron Dingee

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Ron Dingee, DMD, MPH (author of "Misssionary Memories", "Nanna (or How to Eat an Elephant", "Things They Don't Teach You in School", and "Patsy's Park"),was born in Lynn, MA. After graduation from Lynn English High School, he joined the U.S. Air Force where he met his wife, Evelyn. He earned his doctor's degree in dental medicine and a master's degree in public health from the University of Pittsburgh with advanced studies at the University of London, School of Tropical Medicine.

He practiced dentistry in Greensburg, PA for almost 25 years during which time he volunteered his skills in Latin America, Mexico, Haiti, Zaire, and Thailand as a medical missionary. In 1991, he and his wife, Evelyn, sold their home and the dental practice to go to Bangkok, Thailand to co-manage the Bangkok Christian Guest House for four years. After Bangkok, they managed the Redwood Glen Baptist Camp and Conference Center in CA for three years then moved to Nevada to work with the Shoshone-Paiute Indians before retiring.

The author does not write one genre but rather whatever inspires him at the time.

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His novel, "Missionary Memories", based on true stories, recalls the life of a 93 year old father whose son attempts to learn more about his father and, in doing so, hears for the first time, many extraordinary stories of his father's experiences as a part-time medical missionary that took him from his dental practice in western PA to a remote village in western Africa, Latin America, Haiti, Mexico, and Thailand.

The book contains many stories of the father's missionary experiences, and details the difficult lives of the people he visited, and the hardships they faced not having medical or dental care.

The story also recounts many of the difficulties his son had dealing with his father's declining health, and the complexities of today's health care system eventually ending in hospice care. The son anguishes over many of the decisions he had to make until a friend, who had recently lost her husband, gives him some good advice.

The story ends when the son finds a letter the father had written giving him final instructions for his life.

"Nanna (or How to Eat an Elephant) is a fictional story inspired by the missionary activities of his former church to Appalachia.

"Things They Don't Teach You..." is written for young people aged 18 to 25 who are about to get out on their own. It is a very basic text book on many of the financial issues they will face ie. banking, insurance, buying/renting cars and apartments.

"Patsy's Park" is a murder mystery. John Gowdy, a freelance writer of unusual true crimes, is drawn to a small town near Pittsburgh, PA where the body of the town’s beloved daughter and owner of an old iconic newsstand is found in a place where no one would have expected.

Homicide Detective John Polson and Sergeant Ted Costa relate the details of their most unusual and mysterious murder case.