Anson woman credits God for lifelong help Article by Alan Crowell Staff Writer, Morning Sentinel, Central Maine Newspapers, Saturday, February 11, 2006. ANSON — Freda Merry was only 10 the summer her family's farm burned. "How traumatic," writes Merry, "for a 10-year-old girl to watch her home bum to the ground before her eyes. Even the new shoes, which I loved so much, were destroyed." It was only the first of three fires that Merry lived through. Looking back in her biography titled "Freda's Diary, The Ongoing Life of a Central Maine Woman," Merry writes that she realizes that fire was one of the first special acts God performed in her life. There were other hard times, including a failed marriage and a child bom out of wedlock, but Merry survived the upheavals in her personal life and waves of economic change to raise a large family of eight children and become a leader in her church. She credits her faith for giving her the strength to survive and grow through adversity.
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