David Edson graduated from Freesoil High School in June of 1929! Four months later the depression started!
He married Bertha Mae Tunwell from Manistee, Michigan in 1936. They would have five children; William, Mary, Nancy, David, and Ellen.
They were members of the Dunkard-Brethren Church. His father, Zachariah Leander Bussear, was a preacher in the church and he started the Long Lake Church and cemetery in 1914. I can truthfully say that my father tried to walk in Christ's footsteps all the days of his life! He was a carpenter by trade and would proudly say, "My Lord was a carpenter!"
He was also a strawberry farmer. I can remember one day when a poor widow with children came to pick strawberries at our farm. As we were loading the strawberries into the trunk of her car, I watched my dad slip a $20 bill into one of the strawberry boxes!
He truly taught by example and I am a better man because he was my father!
He married Bertha Mae Tunwell from Manistee, Michigan in 1936. They would have five children; William, Mary, Nancy, David, and Ellen.
They were members of the Dunkard-Brethren Church. His father, Zachariah Leander Bussear, was a preacher in the church and he started the Long Lake Church and cemetery in 1914. I can truthfully say that my father tried to walk in Christ's footsteps all the days of his life! He was a carpenter by trade and would proudly say, "My Lord was a carpenter!"
He was also a strawberry farmer. I can remember one day when a poor widow with children came to pick strawberries at our farm. As we were loading the strawberries into the trunk of her car, I watched my dad slip a $20 bill into one of the strawberry boxes!
He truly taught by example and I am a better man because he was my father!
David Edson graduated from Freesoil High School in June of 1929! Four months later the depression started!
He married Bertha Mae Tunwell from Manistee, Michigan in 1936. They would have five children; William, Mary, Nancy, David, and Ellen.
They were members of the Dunkard-Brethren Church. His father, Zachariah Leander Bussear, was a preacher in the church and he started the Long Lake Church and cemetery in 1914. I can truthfully say that my father tried to walk in Christ's footsteps all the days of his life! He was a carpenter by trade and would proudly say, "My Lord was a carpenter!"
He was also a strawberry farmer. I can remember one day when a poor widow with children came to pick strawberries at our farm. As we were loading the strawberries into the trunk of her car, I watched my dad slip a $20 bill into one of the strawberry boxes!
He truly taught by example and I am a better man because he was my father!
He married Bertha Mae Tunwell from Manistee, Michigan in 1936. They would have five children; William, Mary, Nancy, David, and Ellen.
They were members of the Dunkard-Brethren Church. His father, Zachariah Leander Bussear, was a preacher in the church and he started the Long Lake Church and cemetery in 1914. I can truthfully say that my father tried to walk in Christ's footsteps all the days of his life! He was a carpenter by trade and would proudly say, "My Lord was a carpenter!"
He was also a strawberry farmer. I can remember one day when a poor widow with children came to pick strawberries at our farm. As we were loading the strawberries into the trunk of her car, I watched my dad slip a $20 bill into one of the strawberry boxes!
He truly taught by example and I am a better man because he was my father!
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