- It started with two.
Florinette, and Jimmy Renfrow married on February 8, 1953.
In a 27 year span they had 11 children together.
66 years later,
they have 48 grandchildren, and 35 great-grandchildren.
They are better known these days as Renfrow nation.
This was a phrase coined several years ago
in support of a grandchild Hunter Renfrow
as he began his football career as a wide receiver
at Clemson University.
If you ask either of them, or their 11 children
they will most certainly give credit
to their family's unity in any success
to their strong faith in Jesus Christ.
The Renfrow family is known for their large numbers
and have been extremely blessed to have produced
several doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers,
preachers, nurses, coaches, and homemakers.
An automobile mechanic and a town librarian
encouraged their 11 children to recognize
the importance of faith and family.
Raising their children in a small town,
studying hard and participating in school
and community sports.
Found a place along the way in years to come,
which would eventually enable multiple academic
and athletic scholarships to assist their children
in furthering their education.
I'm Jimmy Renfrow and my wife Florinette and myself
have had a long happy marriage.
We just celebrated our 66th wedding anniversary last week
and well the lord has really blessed us in a lotta ways
and we've been able to, we've got 11 children,
48 grandchildren, and 35 great-grandchildren.
And we were, the lord blessed us and left,
we were fortunate enough to send our,
all our children to school, to college.
And most of them got financial aid
and they got scholarships and different events and all.
And but we feel that we've really been blessed
over the years to.
We've got a wonderful family
and we're just,
they all have done well in life so far
and we are, we just feel that we've been really blessed
with our family.
- In 2002 Florinette Renfrow won Mother of the Year
for the state of South Carolina.
She was published in PeeDee magazine,
and was invited to eat lunch with the governor,
at the governor's mansion.
- My family got big,
and we got spread out a little when they graduated
from college they had to go elsewhere to get jobs.
And, but now we've got a normal family,
and we love all of them and every year
back as far back in maybe 1958
we started going to a week.
Florinette's mom and daddy started out with
taking us to Ocean Isle Beach one week every summer.
Since then we've kept up that tradition
and we've most of that time we've been going
to Ocean Isle Beach.
And renting houses for the 4th of July.
And our family's been faithful to just
keep it together for the week we have.
Just to almost 100% of our family there every summer.
And we have a great week.
We started off renting a house and now we rent 11 houses.
And we have a great week and the cousins and all
have such a wonderful time playing.
I don't know how it would work if it was two weeks but.
Anyway they, it's about the only time a year
that we all our family gets together at the 4th of July.
At the beach and then at Christmastime.
We think we've got a wonderful family,
and we are as big as we are fairly close.
We talk to each other every few days,
and we have, the lord has blessed us in so many ways.
- They won't tell you this.
But the Renfrow family is an amazing group.
They give all the credit of their successed accomplishments
to the glory of God.
And to think, it all began in a small South Carolina town.
And it started with two.