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Lawrence Marks looks through vegetables at his farmstand, Opa\u2019s Fresh Veggies, on a recent Sunday afternoon. (Photo by Arlene Bachanov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

PALMYRA \u2014 Lawrence Marks surveyed the array of produce \u2014 tomatoes, butternut squash, pumpkins, gourds, peppers, and more, including corn stalks and even fresh eggs kept in a cooler \u2014 for sale at his farmstand on Deerfield Highway in Palmyra on a recent Sunday afternoon, and nodded in satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year is the best I\u2019ve had in eight,\u201d he said of the amount of vegetables his two-acre plot has delivered this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trailerloads of pumpkins he sells in a typical year are purchased from a neighbor for resale at the stand, but other than that, all the produce is grown on Marks\u2019 farm nearby on Grosvenor Highway, two 50-acre plots which he rents to his son, David.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His grandson Matthew, the fifth generation of the Marks clan to be a farmer, owns the farm on Deerfield Highway where he has run his farm stand for about eight years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marks sets up his stand, called \u201cOpa\u2019s Fresh Veggies\u201d after his grandchildrens\u2019 name for him, at that location because Deerfield Highway gets far more traffic than what comes down Grosvenor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marks\u2019 energy level belies his 92 years. In addition to tending his vegetable plot, he volunteers with the Salvation Army, which is also the recipient of any extra produce he has, every two weeks when it does its food distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have to be there at 6:15, so I get up early,\u201d he said, chuckling. And, every three months, he serves as a Meals on Wheels driver through his church, Immanuel Lutheran in Palmyra, a volunteer task he said he very much enjoys doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s been a Lutheran all his life. \u201cMy granddad was a Lutheran minister, so I guess it kind of rubbed off on me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marks family has long ties to the area. His grandparents came to the U.S. from Germany in 1890, settled in New York, and decided to move to Palmyra because his grandmother had a sister who lived nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple bought the farmland on Grosvenor in 1893, arriving by train at what was then known as Lenawee Junction, not far away. Later, Marks\u2019 father took over the farm, and Marks was the youngest of five children born in the farmhouse. He\u2019s lived his whole life on the same piece of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up as he did during the Great Depression, \u201cthings were rough,\u201d he said. But living on a farm at least meant they had plenty to eat, between the vegetables the family grew, the eggs and meat from their contingent of chickens, and the livestock they had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, his mother did plenty of canning, made the family\u2019s shirts (being farmers, they needed denim overalls, so those had to be bought) and darned their socks. Getting new socks simply because one of them got a hole in it was unheard of in those days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His only schooling came at the country school a mile away, which the children walked to. \u201cMy dad was a true German and you didn\u2019t get the car out to go a mile to school,\u201d Marks said, adding the familiar joke about how school \u201cwas a mile away and it was uphill in both directions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He attended that school until eighth grade. When it came time for high school, however, he never got to go because his father lost a leg to infection and he was needed to help out on the farm. For the same reason, he was exempted from military service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marks was 25 when he and his wife, Charlotte, married and moved into a new home they built on the family farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had two children, David and Brenda \u2014 followed over time by five grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren \u2014 and enjoyed 48 years of marriage before she died 18 years ago. He then found love a second time with Judy Hensley, who died this past April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to all the hard work it always takes to run a farm, Marks held down another job full-time for most of his life. He worked for 44 years as the produce buyer for the A&P grocery store, 34 of those years in Adrian and 10 more years at the chain\u2019s Saline location after the Adrian store closed, so that he could work for A&P until retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also spent many years, until retiring just recently, as a funeral assistant for what is now the Wagley Funeral Home Tagsold Chapel in Blissfield, where his duties included helping transport the deceased and working at visitations and funerals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, with the way he keeps so busy, does he have time for any hobbies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing he used to do in his \u201cspare time,\u201d such as it was, was chair caning. \u201cTwenty years ago, a chair was expensive if you had to have it caned,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now, that\u2019s a thing of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with everything he continues to do to serve others, enjoy time with his family, and, in season, tend his vegetables and keep his farm stand well-stocked, he has no plans to stop being active any time soon despite his age. \u201cGod has blessed me well with good health,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judy Marcus of Palmyra, a longtime friend, knows all about Marks\u2019 inability to slow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe can\u2019t sit still,\u201d she said, to the point that he recently applied for job as a bagger at a local grocery store and, when he wasn\u2019t hired, fretted because he thought he needed more to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got to be busy or he\u2019s not happy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcus first met Marks while he was at the Adrian A&P and she worked at the nearby Grant\u2019s department store. They\u2019ve been friends ever since, and Marcus volunteers alongside him at the Salvation Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s seen firsthand how the later generations of Markses inherited his helping ways. Marks\u2019 grandchildren also volunteer at the Salvation Army, and only recently they arrived at Marcus\u2019 house to help clear her yard of sticks that had blown down after a wind storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe grandkids are as sweet as he is,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve never met a family like them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcus described her friend as \u201csuch a character. He\u2019s a lot of fun, and he just wants to do everything for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s willing to help anywhere and everywhere he can,\u201d she added. \u201cHe\u2019s just a very caring person, and he cares about his family, and everybody who knows him would say the same thing. If you need anything, he\u2019ll get it for you. If you need anything done, he\u2019ll do it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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