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Mary Martin Fox was born October 2nd, 1950. She grew up on Chestnut Ridge in Baltimore County, Maryland, enjoying country life without all the responsibilities of life on a farm. Mary’s family lived on just an acre lot and the only animals she had to tend to were a dog, a parakeet and a goldfish … for a short period of time. Mary’s family was one of the first in the neighborhood to own a small black and white television set in the early 1950’s.

Through her early years, Mary’s social outlet was Grace Falls Road United Methodist Church, where she enjoyed worship and fellowship – and then on Saturday mornings, her mother helped her to enjoy cleaning the church. Her specific duties were to dust the pews and straighten the hymnals. After that, she could tarry around the church playing hymns on the piano and singing. She enjoyed church choir as well as school choirs.

After attending Franklin Elementary, Junior and Senior High Schools, Mary graduated with a commercial diploma in 1968. Her plans were to be a secretary and she began that full time for Dr. Charles Williams in Pikesville, Maryland. As time marched on, Mary married, moved to College Park, divorced, and attended college in the evenings while continuing to work full time, advancing in her career to administrative assistant, executive assistant and eventually a manager of varying degrees. Mary’s learned skills in English, writing and photography have been instrumental in Fox Meadow Publishing and The Legacy of a Country Boy.

 
  Mary met her beloved Jimmy Fox when she was just an infant, as their parents were great friends. Time moved on for both of them, but not until her grandfather died in September of 1974 were they re-united in friendship at the funeral. That spark became a flame very quickly and they were married in January 1975, when Mary moved back to Chestnut Ridge to begin her life with Jimmy and his two sons Chuck and Mark. It was at that time when Jimmy began to expose Mary to farm life and the true meaning of love. Their ‘baby boy Davy’ as Mary still calls him, was born in November of 1977.

Her dedication and loyalty to her Lord, her Jimmy, their family and all those she has touched through the years are the attributes, which have reflected ‘the woman behind the man’ of The Legacy of a Country Boy.