Honorary Members
and Past Presidents
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Honorary Members
Shelby Hadeler, Winchester, VA - Member since 2000
Charlotte Meadows, Luray, VA - Member since 2005
Inez Myers, Luray, VA - Member since 2011
Lois Strickler Foley ~ December 14, 1933 ~ September 5, 2024 (age 90)
Lois Strickler Foley ~ December 14, 1933 ~ September 5, 2024 (age 90)
Lois was a beloved Hill and Valley Garden Club member since 1990. She was club President in 1996 and 2005. Lois also served in other Committees during her membership with the club, and was always modest about her wonderful contributions to the club.
Lois could always be counted on to supply her home for meetings, her flowers for special club events, her ideas for the club's endeavors, and her fields of "Sweet Annie" for the dried flower bundles at the Heritage Festival.
Lois was also a founding leader for the 4-H Junior Garden Club, "Bees & Buttercups", which she named and worked with for many years.
Over the years, Lois' involvement in the club diminished, but she was always happy to hear how the club was doing and that new people were joining to be part of the club's great works.
https://www.thebradleyfuneralhome.com/obituary/Lois-Foley
In Memory of Our Friend and Garden Buddy
Doris Jean Hodge Miller - March 8, 1935 - June 6, 2024 West Virginia native. University of Maryland graduate in accounting. Worked for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Married to Ralph Miller in 1956. After retiring, motor-coached their way across the USA. Page Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, volunteer tax prep with AARP. Contributions to her memory - Grace Lutheran Church, Page Public Library, or Luray Volunteer Fire Department.
We made a donation to the Page Public Library in Doris' honor. See the lovely thank you card from the Library on the "Ways We Give" page.
In Memory of Fran Gregory
Fran Gregory was a member of the HVGC since 2010 and served as the club's president from 2013 - 2014 and Chaplin for terms. Fran was always quick with a smile or a wry piece of witticism and was a master editor for all our HVGC needs.
She was a Master Gardener, a Red Hat Lady, The Luray Supper Club and a Luray Garden Club member and very active socially with her friends in Luray and Washington, DC.
Fran loved her cat, her favorite old movies, and being a member of the Rileyville Baptist Church.
A Celebration of Life will be held at the Rileyville Baptist Church in Rileyville, on August 17h at 11 am. All family and friends are welcomed. In lieu of flowers, donations are preferred to be made to the Walt Whitman Foundation or the American Cancer Society.
Past Presidents
1956 - Mrs. Kay Campbell
1957 - Mrs. Woody Eastham
1958 - Mrs. Millie Lipps
1959 - Mrs. Helen Blanks
1960 - Mrs. Jennie Ann Garber
1961 - Miss Anne Stilwell
1962 - Mrs. Doris Waters
1963 - Mrs. Joseph E. Grove
1964 - Miss Mary Rebecca Hudson
1965 - Mrs. Jean Gilbert
1966 - Mrs. Margie Shirley
1967 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kayan
1968 - Miss Anne Stilwell
1969 - Mrs. Virginia Saunders Jr.
1970 - Mrs. Isabel Harrell
1971 - Mrs. Isaac R. Dovel Jr.
1972 - Mrs. Mabel Huffman
1973/74 - Miss Anne Stilwell
1975/76 - Mrs. Gretchen Temple
1977/78 - Mrs. Gail Elsea
1979/80 - Mrs. Gretchen Temple
1981 - Mrs. Jean Gilbert
1982 - Mrs. JoAnne Lee
1983/84 - Mrs. Diane Bragg
1985 - Mrs. Tammy Borgie
1986 - Not on record
1987 - Mrs. Becky Sedwick
1988 -Mrs.Dwight Monger (resigned) Mrs. Hazel Mills 1989/90 - Mrs. Martha Ann Critzer
1991 - Mrs. Emmy Tarr
1992 - Mrs. Emmy Tarr (resigned) Mrs. Hazel Mills
1993/94 - Mrs. Hazel Mill
1995 - Mrs. Hazel Mills
1996 - Mrs. Lois Foley and Miss Anne Stilwell
1997 - Ms. Melanie Fox
1998 - Ms. Elbie Blount
1999 - Mrs. Doris Kibler
2000/04 - Mrs. Ruby Edridge
2005/06 - Mrs. Lois Foley
2007/09 - Mr. Arthur 'Bud' Gregory
2009/12 - Ms. Lesley Mack
2013/14 - Mrs. Fran Gregory
2015/17 - Ms. Katie Sokol
2017/19 - Mrs. Shelby Hadeler and Mrs. Lupe Knot
2019/21 - Mrs. Lupe Knot
2021/25 - Ms. Katie Sokol
2025/27 - Mr. Will Daniels
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