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"One time I forgot to refill my prescription and it was one I couldn't do without. It was about 4 o'clock and I knew he closed at 5, but I called Wayne and he said, `Don't worry. I can fill it for you,"' she said. "And then he told me I didn't have to go out. `I'll drop it off at your house on my way home,' he said. And that's what he did — just like one of those old-fashioned doctors doing house calls. He just made everybody feel so good." Customers and fellow pharmacists alike call Jeffrey compassionate, trusted, professional and caring. "He's a man with compassion for patients and co-workers. He's a trusted professional," said pharmacist Lynn Young, who works with him at the pharmacy inside Cobom's grocery store in Ramsey. Pharmacy technician Ashley Mohrman also spoke highly of Jeffrey's work. "He's one of the most bubbly, outgoing, friendly people I know," she said. "He's like family to his patients. People come to this pharmacy because of him." When Jeffrey first came to Ramsey and worked at Ramsey Drug Store, it was located inside the Ramsey Medical Clinic on Highway 47 (the current Allina Health Ramsey Clinic). Just four years into his time at Ramsey Drug, the owners sold the drug store to Jeffrey and his wife, Vivian. "I was terrified. I had to learn to run a business and I was young, but Viv and I, we made a go at it," Jeffrey said. The young couple's "go at it" was successful, as evidenced by a patient base of 25,000 and the two pharmacy technicians who worked with him for 25 and 30 years before their own retirements a few years ago. "That really tells you how he cares for people and how he makes work fun, too. He creates a nice, relaxed atmosphere and that makes it nice for us and for customers," said pharmacy technician Darla Larson, who works with Jeffrey at Cobom's Pharmacy. Change continued during Jeffrey's pharmaceutical service in Ramsey. In 1998, Jeffrey said Ramsey Medical Clinic grew and needed more space, "so our space physically shrunk but our focus on pharmacy grew," he said, describing the name change from Ramsey Drug to Ramsey Pharmacy and the finish of his time selling all the other items in the store. In 2011, after Cobom's Inc. acquired Ramsey Pharmacy, Jeffrey and his crew moved from the medical center into Cobom's grocery store in Ramsey and became Cobom's Pharmacy.