Margie Gray was born on a Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona,
where her parents taught school. When she was eight...
.... the family moved to Barstow, California, and she finished high school there. Following the completion of a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, Margie moved to Mountain Pass, California where, in 1983, she met and married her husband, Owen, a heavy equipment operator.* In 1990 Owen and Margie moved their family of six to Arkansas to be nearer to relatives. There Margie’s grandmother lived with them the last three years of her life. After she died, Owen and Margie longed to move west. So in 1997, with hopes of employment nearer to home and a better climate, the Gray family moved to Silver City, New Mexico where they now have their home, two businesses, homeschool for their six children, and, of course, are active in the local homeschool group.
Margie’s love for teaching springs from a rich heritage of educators. In addition to her parents, her grandmother, aunts, uncles, and sister have all been teachers. While education was, and remained, her foundation, Margie moved away from teaching in the traditional public school system while growing up. Indeed, after seeing the “social agenda” of the educational system and the problems her parents faced, she chose to become a nurse. Still the desire to be an educator grew and as a new family, the Grays decided to homeschool when their first child was just six months old.
Finding the curriculum available did not meet her needs, Margie started writing her own. From this beginning, her commitment to homeschooling expanded beyond her family to the founding of a Christian book company. Through Cadron Creek Christian Curriculum she has published four major curriculum materials and supplies a number of companion and other helpful resources to homeschooling families. Three of the materials she has published are her own work. She has written the unit studies, The Prairie Primer and Where the Brook and River Meet, and compiled and edited the companion poetry resource, Anne’s Anthology. Additionally, she is the major contributing editor for the study, Further Up and Further In. In 1999 her article, “His Burden is Light,” was published in Bill and Diana Waring’s 50 Veteran Homeshoolers Share. . . Things We Wish We’d Known.
Look for her next book soon, another unity study based on the book, Endurance.
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Margie Gray,
