I am a fourth generation Lutheran. Dave and I joined Trinity Lutheran Church in 2003. Since I have been here, I have painted two murals with Dave in one of the classrooms downstairs, served as a member of the Property Committee and the Worship and Music Committee, drawn landscape plans for the church and school, installed new landscape over a period of years, and installed a cross collection in the corridor.
I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Education and an Associates in Horticulture. Having previously been a Navy wife, I have had many different jobs. I have taught 7th grade in California, K-12 art in Maryland, 6th grade in Texas, and a class in perennials for a satellite class of George Washington University in Virginia. I have been a landscape designer in Virginia and in Texas for 35 years. I have worked in a floral shop in California and worked in Virginia as a landscape designer. I have been on the boards of the Virginia Society of Landscape Designers, Virginia Landscape and Nursery Association, and the Virginia Horticultural Conference.