I Had to Be the Fighter

Marjorie Rowland was an unlikely hero. Born and raised near Toledo, Ohio, she was a good student who attended church regularly and chose to be baptized as a teenager. She attended college at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and graduated in 1962 with a license to teach. In her first year of teaching, she met another new teacher, and soon the two married. Over the next several years, the couple added three children to their family. The marriage ended in 1971, leaving Rowland with three small children to support as a single parent. She was a young woman with serious