Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ginger Purdy, center, is surrounded by her daughters, clockwise from upper left, Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, Mary Fletcher Owens ...

Years ago, when Mark Stoeltje was working to get the nonprofit he headed off the ground, his mother-in-law Virginia "Ginger" Purdy invited him and a philanthropist friend to lunch so Stoeltje could ...