She lived between 1953-2006. She came to the Copper Country as an infant. She was raised in Hancock. She was a newspaper reporter in Cheboygan between 1982-1983. She was the Pastor of Community Church of Calumet for 7 years. She was the pastor of Saving Grace Christian Fellowship. She started to paint when she was 3 years old. She was afflicted with Behcet’s Disease, but she didn’t let that keep her great love of art. “When I’m in the artwork, I can’t feel pain. I can’t feel the illness” she said in 2004. She created landscapes on site, or even entirely in her imagination; she did most of her Keweenaw scenes. She exhibited her artworks in the Turquoise Art Gallery in 2004. She passed away in 2006. |