Betty Fresh
2021
Betty M. Fresh, 97, was born July 30,1923 to Edwin and Edna Beem in Chariton, Iowa. The family later moved to the Chicago area where Betty graduated from Proviso High School in 1941. There she met her husband, James H. Fresh, in his last year at the Lutheran Seminary. Jim and Betty married and had three children in the Chicago area Dave,Doug,and Sue. In 1956 the family moved to Galion, Ohio. A Florida vacation in 1966 turned into a calling from above for Pastor Jim to become the first called pastor to a six month old Lutheran Congregation in Dunedin, Fl. Betty was the perfect pastor's wife being at Pastor Jim's side developing St.Mark Lutheran Church, St. Mark Christian School, and finally...