Faye amos was born in April of 1961 to a poor family with a large number of children. Due to the large family and not being able to take care of themselves the some of the children were put into foster care. After being moved between three foster homes before Faye and her sister Evelyn were adopted by a couple already in their 50’s. The older couple was Howard and Myrtle Bailey of a little town called Winona, Ohio. They were a quiet older couple who were devout Quakers whose profession was farming until they retired at that point they sold the farm and built a house in the more populated part of town. After building their house they used all of their excess cash to purchases rental houses. At one point the baileys owned 20 rental houses with an income of …show more content…
Due to their religious beliefs they lived very frugally and donated large amounts of money to different charities. On the death of Myrtle Bailey in 2014, Faye Amos inherited almost 200k. Faye Amos was married to Leonard Amos until his death in 2003, she was beneficiary to a 100k term life policy he had taken out on himself. Mrs. Amos has had a nursing license since 1981, she worked as a nurse in dialysis until 1989 when her second daughter was born. In 1990 her third and final child a son was born. She became a stay at home mom managing the family’s finances. In 2003 she returned to school to return to Nursing school to complete her R.N. She continued to her schooling after the death of her husband. After graduation she went to work for a nursing home in her home town of Martinsville where she has been employed for the last 5 years. Recently she has been diagnosed with a rare arthritis that will cause her to need