Marlene Linville and her husband John Linville, were farmers in central Indiana. He passed away in April 2020, in May of 2020 they would have been married seventy-one years. They were blessed with six sons, three daughters, twenty-eight grandchildren and thirty-three great-grandchildren.
She writes about their experiences of a house fire, her having polio while pregnant with their third child, John surviving a tornado while it destroyed his parents home and their son serving in combat during the Vietnam war. Through all of these life experiences their faith in God did not waiver or falter. Marlene gives God the glory of granting her strength for every day.