Christina Berry

Chistina Anne Berry (Christina Glenn- Arabian) Born in Fowler, CA. on August 17, 1918, to Isaac and Sarah Glenn. She was the second of seven children. She passed in Bellevue, WA on March 10, 2013.Chris proved our human-will can overcome most any obstacle. Born with a serious spinal deformity, a hunchback, she was thought to be handicapped. But she never considered herself handicapped, and proved time and again to be more vigorous and alive than many people with perfect, straight backs. Her mother forbid her to marry. But Chris rented a mailbox so she could receive love-letters from her future husband, a young man from Maine, Roland Edward Berry. She married and moved from Fresno to chilly Boston. They raised two sons, James and Charles, settling in Escanaba, Michigan. Dr. Berry was a pathologist and ran the laboratory at St. Francis Hospital. Chris was an avid reader, a lifetime learner of languages, politics, music and history. Chris was an active volunteer with the Community Concert Association, the Housing Commission and various civic organizations, and enjoyed traveling, music and the