Thelma Frye Gregory

Infobox character
name = Thelma Frye Gregory
first = Pilot
last = Deliverance, Pts. 1 & 2
portrayer = Anna Maria Horsford
occupation = Relator
born = 1950/1951
age = 36-41
spouse = Reverend Rueben Gregory (1990-present)
children =
species = Female
gender = Female
family = Deacon Ernest Frye (father)
Lorraine Tillman Frye (mother)
Mrs. Gregory (mother-in-law)
Reverend Rueben Gregory (husband)

Thelma Frye Gregory was a fictional character on the hit series, "Amen", she was portrayed by Anna Maria Horsford.

Character Background

Thelma Frye is the daughter of Deacon Ernest Frye, a dishonest deacon at the First Community Church of Philadelphia, and Thelma was born around the early 1950s, her mother died when Thelma was about the age of six. so, Ernest had to take care Thelma as she has gotten older and started to discover her mother's passing away. In the first couple of episodes of "Amen", Thelma was known for being a spinster, but had a long-lasting crush on the man of her dreams, Reverend Rueben Gregory, who she thought, was handsome, polite and mostly very attractive to women. Thelma and Rueben kept on with the relationship until 1989 when Rueben proposed to Thelma she accepts the engagement and in the middle of the third season, Thelma becomes Rueben's Fiancé.

Thelma was also known for her horrible cooking, which no one wanted to touch or eat and mostly pretend if they did like it, but was best friends to Rolly Forbes, Cassietta Hetebrink and Amelia Hetebrink, two girlhood siblings, and Thelma usually drafted herself into the military after discovering Rueben had passed out on the day of the marriage, and Thelma leaves him, and Ernest and Rueben tried to have her not go to the military, but Thelma had already changed her mind and stayed there for a full year. After being discharged Thelma and the Reuben marry and later go on to have a son in the series finale.