National Ceres

Cindy Greer

National Grange Ceres

National Grange of the Order
Of Patrons of Husbandry

Cindy Greer was elected National Ceres in 2017 in Spokane, WA, at the 151st Annual National Grange Convention.  Cindy is currently the Secretary of the Colorado State Grange, having been elected to that position in 2015.  She served as the National Grange Youth Development Director from 2002-06.

She was also previously Colorado State Grange President, Lecturer, Lady Assistant Stewart, Ceres, and Flora, as well as Youth Director, Junior Director, Deaf Activities Director and Mandy Project Director.  She is the Secretary/Treasurer for People Improving Communities and Kids (PICK) and has been since its beginning in 2000.  PICK is a 501(c)(3) organization for the Colorado State Grange. Cindy’s maternal grandparents were Grange members, and her own Grange journey began in Mt. Allison Junior Grange, where she served as President/Master.  She joined Mt. Allison Grange #308 in 1973.  She transferred to Marvel Grange in 1978 when she married Harry Greer.  The Greer family also has a deep Grange legacy, with five generations having been Grange members. She and Harry represented Colorado as Young Couple in Spokane, WA, in 1981, making her election to National Office in the same city decades later fitting. The couple live near Marvel, Colorado, in a log home that they built themselves with the help of family and friends.  They have two children, Russell and Daniel, and seven grandchildren.

Cindy earned a secretarial degree at Blair Business College, in Colorado Springs, CO, and worked as a secretary at Fort Lewis College and the La Plata County Extension service prior to the birth of the couple’s first child. Since that time, she has been a stay at home mom and Domestic Engineer (homemaker).  She currently provides daycare for the grandchildren and focuses much of her time to volunteering in the community.

Cindy is active in the Marvel Methodist Church and serves as the Sunday School superintendent and Vacation Bible School director.  She attends Bible Study Fellowship Day Women’s class in Durango and has served as a Children’s leader, Assistant Children’s Supervisor and Children’s supervisor. Cindy is an active member of the Fort Lewis Mesa Fire Department Auxiliary.  She is a 4-H cake decorating leader and had done so for about 40 years; during the past year, she also took on being a 4-H sewing leader.  Cindy and Harry both served as the main leader for the Pioneer 4-H Club.  Cindy is currently the Marvel Junior Grange leader.

Cindy has always had an interest in the Deaf. She enjoys decorating cakes, making crafts, working with children, crocheting, knitting, embroidery, cooking, leathercraft, art, clogging, line dancing, and signing songs.