Anna came here when Miss Mears taught the college dept of 500 (1948). She started life in Texas, grew up in various California towns, and accepted the Lord on Palm Sunday when she was twelve. Anna went to Pepperdine for her BA, and to USC for her MA and teaching credential. She met Jack at USC and discovered he was a member here at FPCH. They were married in 1953.

Anna taught high school English and Jack, who was a champion tennis player and a pilot of B-29s, worked as an engineer. Anna and Jack were asked to be on the Missions Committee early on and participated in five overseas short-term missions.

When Anna retired in 1992, she started volunteering in Missions full time, and when the Session voted to adopt the Kurds as our Unreached People Group in 1992, she started a Kurdish prayer group which has been going ever since. One special opportunity was to work on the Light Up Embangweni project that wired two hospitals for electricity in Malawi.