WCCC Valentines Day Queen Betty Thrasher was born in 1921 in Ridgeway, but spent all her life in Worth County. She and her husband, the late Rex Thrasher, farmed before they moved to Grant City where Betty was a domestic worker and Rex was a custodian for the school. She has two children, Linda Hibbs and David Thrasher. She has three granddaughters and is the grandmother of the late Todd Hibbs. "Everyone who knew him loved him," she said. She has eight great-grandchildren.
Betty was part of a family of 12; she had seven brothers, one of whom survives. She had four sisters, two of whom survive. Thrasher said that her parents and siblings all worked hard and that they all made their own toys.
Looking back on her 91 years, Thrasher said that it was quite a shock to see all the changes that have happened in her lifetime; she said that if her parents were to come back, they would be shocked at all the changes. By contrast, she recounted how Rex remembered the first car that he ever saw on one of the roads in Worth County, a Ford Model T. "The horses were scared to death of the cars," she recalled.
Thrasher is related to two long-time teachers in Worth County. She was a cousin to long-time elementary teacher Irene Thrasher, and she said that she got a lot of calls from people who got them confused. She is also related to Evelyn Groom; Evelyn's mother and Rex were brother and sister.
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