In her words: 
" I was an excited second grader when my parents purchased the home organ we saw at the Coliseum Home Show.  They taught me all they could for two years, and then let me take lessons from the teacher across the street.  I was also involved with school choirs from the fifth through high school and later at church until we needed an organist.  At which time, I studied with a teacher of church organists.  By then Dick and I were married and had our first two children. I was the church organist for 25 years and am now the pianist. 

In January of 1994, when Jeanette had just turned one, I started  teaching piano at home, partly out of concern of where the next generation of musicians was coming from. Also, it was from a love of the students, of the music, and a love of teaching.   The teacher who mentored me as a piano teacher introduced me to the other teachers in the Northeast Indiana Chapter of Music Teachers National Association.  I chaired our annual Achievement in Music Festival held at Purdue Fort Wayne, my alma mater.   

When Joel and Alicia were married and gone from home, my husband remodeled the back of the house into a piano studio away from any family traffic.  In 2008, I glady accepted an invitation to begin teaching piano at St. John and have delighted in sharing my love of music with students ever since. It is especially a privilege to watch them grow up from young children I began teaching to, in a few cases, seniors graduating from high school.  I hope making music will always be a rich part of their lives!"