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closeLast year was historic for our nation for many reasons, but here in Warner Robins, we had a little bit of history making as well.
The Greenbiar Garden Club celebrated its 50th birthday.
For the last 50 years, the members of the Greenbriar Garden Club have used their love of flowers, gardening and the outdoors to make Warner Robins beautiful in many ways.
From environmental education to planting trees, these ladies have helped beautify our community while influencing others to learn more about gardening and its benefits.
The Greenbriar Garden Club celebrated its historic anniversary with a luncheon.
Organized in 1958, the group started off with members Nadine Ard, Gladys Backus, Mary Childers, Juanita Ford, Evelyn Jones, Lorraine Jones, Martyne Kehl, Betty Kight, Julianne Matthews, Georgia McDaniel, Edith Miller, Mildred Mills, Eunice Presto, Kathleen Smith, Virginia Walden and Molly Watson.
Now serving the club as officers are Linda Dupree, president; Mary Steele, vice president; Wanda Duda, vice president; Charlotte Slade, vice president; Elon Lee, corresponding secretary; Mildred Chapman, treasurer; and Ruth Grantham, recording secretary.
Over the years, the charter members of the Greenbiar Garden Club and the others who followed them have combined their efforts to bring the joys of flowers into others’ lives.
They have supported garden projects for the students at Shirley Hills Elementary and planted dogwood trees at Russell Elementary.
Garden club members are responsible for planting many of the crepe myrtle trees along the railroad tracks that are a beautiful and enticing entrance to Warner Robins.
They raised the funds and supervised the landscaping at the post office on Davis Drive.
Through other fund-raisers, Greenbriar Garden Club has contributed books on gardening to the public library and paid for trees to be used in landscaping at the Houston Medical Center.
Garden clubs are a tradition that in Georgia goes back to 1891, when the first garden club in America was founded in Athens. The Garden Club of Georgia was officially established in June of 1929.
One of the state organization’s first projects was to develop a garden to memorialize the 12 charter members of the first garden club in Athens. Founder’s Memorial Garden, on the north end of the campus of the University of Georgia, was completed in 1946.
Fifteen thousand people from around the state serve their communities through membership in garden clubs.
Contact Alline Kent at allinekent@cox.net or at 396-2467.
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