Marvin V. Frey

FREY, Marvin V. b. Sherwood, Washington County, Oregon, 19 December 1918; d. Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York, 28 November 1992. Frey was one of seven siblings born to Charles Emmanuel Frey (1886–1972) and Anna M. Frey (née Fichtner) (1891–1958). He married Helen M. Frey (1923– ). Known as an evangelist for the nondenominational Independent Assemblies of God, he commenced his ministry in the 1930s at an early age and, in addition, played the piano for Canadian Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), founder of the Foursquare Church. His obituary credits Frey with founding the Children’s Fund of New York in 1956, a philanthropic organization devoted to children in...