Mrs. Jane Mitchell, 1909 – 2009 Interview and profile completed by Ms. Carol Ellis, 2009-2010 Mrs. Jane Mitchell, a past member of the Cape Fear Garden Club, was born on September 20, 1909. Having had her 100th birthday on Sunday, September 20, 2009, Mrs. Mitchell was delighted with the attention that milestone brought to her.
Mrs. Bruce (Dot) Bryant Cape Fear Garden Club – President 1977-1979 Emeritus Member Interview and profile completed by Ms. Carole Ellis, 2009-2010. Updated 1/2015 Mrs. Dot Bryant was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1926. Her biological father and mother divorced when she was a small child. When she was eleven (11) her mother married
Mrs. Lucien (Freda) Wilkins 1942-2015 Cape Fear Garden Club President 1981-1983 Freda Wilkins was born in Sanford, North Carolina in 1942. She went to grade school and high school there, and when she graduated in 1960, she attended Meredith College in Raleigh where she received a degree in Home Economics and Science in 1964. She
Alma Fennell Ivey – President, 1990 – 1991 Alma Fennell Ivey was born in Long, South Carolina in 1944 and when she was 3 days old her family moved to Wilmington. Alma was one of eight children in a military family and she was told to clean her plate and was not allowed to watch
Jenene Curtis Smith The Garden Club of North Carolina – President 2013-2015 Cape Fear Garden Club – Parliamentarian 2014-2015 Cape Fear Garden Club Judges: Flower Arranging & Horticulture – Chair 2014-2015 Cape Fear Garden Club – President 1993-1994 SAR Life Member 1999, National Life Member 1993, State Life Member 1993 Interview and profile completed by
Mrs. Carolyn Augustine Emeritus Member The Garden Club of North Carolina Parliamentarian 2010-2015 Cape Fear Garden Club Parliamentarian 2007-2015 Cape Fear Garden Club President 1997-1998 SAR Life Member 2006 Honored Guest for Moonlight in the Garden Gala 2015 Cape Fear Garden Club Committees: Flower Arranging, Azalea Belle, Hospitality, Yearbook, Long Range Planning Helen Carolyn Bishop
Mrs. Elma Porter Bowden Cape Fear Garden Club – President 1988 – 1990 Emeritus Member Elma Kennedy Porter Bowden was born in Harrells in Sampson County, North Carolina on September 12, 1922. She graduated from Franklin High School but did not go to college at that time because her mother had died recently. Elma came
June Rogers Knox Cape Fear Garden Club President 1994 – 1995 Emeritus Member June Rogers Knox was born in Durham, N. C. but early in her life her family moved to Charlotte where she graduated from Central High School. In the summer between her junior and senior year at Central she went to a choir
Mrs. 0. Raymond (Eleanor) Hunt President 1975 – 1977 Mrs. Eleanor Hunt was born and spent most of her early years in Berea, Kentucky. She said that World War II had a huge impact on her life. She married at 19 in 1944. This made it inevitable that World War II would play a role
Constance Newnam Parker – Emeritus Member Constance Newnam Parker was born November 19, 1943, in High Point, NC. Always a good student and graduating first in her class of 420 students, Connie was voted “Most Likely to Succeed”. Are you surprised? She was an only child whose mother was a career woman, which was not