Family, friends and neighbors came to the Mount Zion UM Church Saturday
to celebrate the 80th birthday of Greta Gainer Marks. She said "I'm doing
good for an old woman," she can often be spotted on her riding lawn mower
taking care of her Pine Creek home.
Greta's husband Blaine, who she married in 1941, died in 1999. She has two
daughters, Lola Clark and Karen Boatright of Pine Creek, and a deceased son
Gary Marks who died in 1987.

Greta Marks "Birthday Girl"

Lola Clark (L) cuts her mother's birthday cake
 Wanza Gainer Marsh (L) and Emma Gainer Wease register P. Jane Wease |