A NICE HONOR FOR BOONE NATIVE

     Nancy (Nan) Hicks Ripley of Nevada, BHS-61, has received a wonderful national honor.

     For her 2006 introduction, 'Scarlet Pimpernel', she is the winner of the 2019 Stout Silver Medal, the highest award given by the American Hemerocallis Society. She is just the 10th woman to receive the award in its almost 70-year history, for a plant from one of her earliest crosses.

     Nan was to receive the medal at the 2020 national AHS convention this summer but the meeting was cancelled due to COVID-19.

     'Scarlet Pimpernel' previously had won the Ned Roberts Spider/Unusual Form Award in 2013.

     A keen gardener, as her Walkabout Gardens expanded, she hosted more and more tour groups. In 1998, one of those groups was the Marshalltown Master Gardeners and among them was Don Lovell, a daylily hybridizer, who suggested that Nan, a watercolorist, try her hand at hybridizing so she could "paint her own flower." He then immediately proceeded to show her the basics of making a cross. She was "hooked" and now she has won the highest honor given by the AHS.

     More information about her daylilys can be found on her website....www.walkaboutgardens.com.

K-----K

     BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Marilyn Pesek Hora, 81, Faribault, MN. Born in Boone. BHS-57. Earned a nursing degree at Creighton University. Married Richard Hora, BHS-57, in 1961. Served as an RN for 35 years in Faribault. Survivors include her husband, two sons, two daughters and two sisters.........Elizabeth Porter Stapes, 68, Roland. BHS-70. Married Brooke Stapes in 2009. Was an ISU secretary for 48 years. Survivors include a son, a sister and brother, Albert Porter, BHS-60, of Boone..........Russell Nelson, 96, Des Moines. Born in Boone County..........Betty DeBeer Eckhart, 93, Boone. Graduated from a Sioux City beauty school. Married Louis Eckhart in 1950. After a few years, the couple moved to Boone. She worked at the Bon Ton Salon before opening her own shop, Klip and Kurl, in her home. Moved to Eastern Star in 2016. Survivors include a daughter, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, a nephew and grand children.

K-----K

     Worldwide Korner headquarters are located at 928 South Jackson, Boone, Iowa 50036-4932. Phone number is 515-432-1530. Leave a message. To email your stories/memories/comments.......kelleyskorner1@gmail.com.