Adell Rowell Tingle Remembered….by Bobbie Ann Hutchins
We are very sad to report that our beloved “Auntie A,” Adell Rowell Tingle, went to the great Louisiana Iris Fields in the sky on May 16, 2012, at the age of 91. She was born in Jamestown, La. on February 1, 1921. She was about the middle of a brood of 12 children who […]
Joyce B. Arny – Memoriam
Joyce B. Amy, of Lafayette, LA, died August 19, 2011 at Cornerstone South after a long battle with Alzheirner ‘s. Many members of the Society for Louisiana Irises will recall Joyce and her late husband, Charles W. Amy. She is survived by her only son, Charles W. Amy III; and many nieces and nephews. Joyce […]
Barbara Furnas Nelson – Memoriam
by Marie Caillet Barbara F. Nelson died on Dec. 13,2010 in Collinsville, Ala. Mrs. Nelson was active in the Society for Louisiana Irises since its founding. She was the widow of a leading scientist who was also a pioneer in working with Louisiana irises. The daughter of Leah and James Furnas, Barbara was born Sept. 21, […]
Marie Caillet – In Memoriam
Godmother of Louisiana Irises was 94, by Richard Sloan Marie Caillet has died at age 94. She had been declining for a while, and death came on Thursday, May 20, 2010. She was a founder of the Society for Louisiana Irises (SLI), and for decades the contact of the Society with the public. She published […]
Monte Stahl – In Memoriam
by Tom Dillard Monte Stahl, secretary of the Society for Louisiana Irises until her recent resignation, died on June 2, 2008. Her irises had bloomed, and she was ready to move on to a garden more promising. Born to Florence and Dave Henderson, on November 2, 1946, in Oklahoma City, Monte lived and gardened here […]
Gertrude “Gertie” Remmel Butler – In Memoriam
by Tom W. Dillard The world of gardening lost one of its great proponents recently with the death of Gertrude Remmel Butler of Little Rock, Ark. To members of the Society for Louisiana Irises, she was simply-but passionately-Gertie! Gertie, and her late husband Richard C. “Dick” Butler, were the kinds of people who lit up […]
Maggie Roberta Rowell Killingsworth – In Memoriam
Roberta Rowell Killingsworth, mother of Society leaders Bobbie Ann Killingsworth Schikowitz and Ron Killingsworth, died at her home in Mooringsport, LA, on April 16, 2007. Born in 1924 in Jamestown, LA, she graduated from Jamestown High School in 1940. She was married to Rev. Elvin L. Killingsworth for 49 years, Mrs. Killingworth was the mother of […]
Russell Bourque – In Memoriam
by Tom Dillard Society members will be saddened to learn of the death of one of our long time member, Russell Bourque of the Lafayette, La. area. Russell was the husband of Elaine Bourque, the long-time treasurer of the Society and he was always helping out at SLI conventions and other events. He was only […]
Dennis Vercher – In Memoriam
Dennis Vercher, editor of the Society for Louisiana Irises (SLI) Newsletter for seven years in the 1990s, died on September 27,2006, at the age of 53. Vercher died of a lung infection brought on by his 20-year battle with AIDS, which had been complicated by his diagnosis with Hodgkin’s lymphoma earlier this year. A native […]
Lynn Finkel – In Memorial – by her husband, Barry Finkel
Thank you Heather Pryor for dedicating your well deserved DeBallion Medal to Lynn’s memory. It’s a great tribute to her. Thank you to Paul Gossett for allowing me to spend a few moments talking about Lynn’s history in the iris world. She had a strong connection to both the SLI and Region 15 and so […]
