Member of the Year
Janice King
2025
Garden Club Member of the Year
Janice got into gardening like most of us through her grandmother. Because of that, when she was Rockdale a neighbor invited her to her first garden club meeting – and she was ooked. She has held every position available in that garden club. Then she was invited to district. See has now held four Zone and Vice Director positions and is currently the Trustee for District V. She also joined another garden club in 2015 and has held many positions there too. She will be the incoming president.
Janice was married and has two sons, three granddaughters and a grandson in law. While living in the DFW area, she worked at the Army and Air Force Exchange in IT department. She spent most of her 29+ year career as a software developer, then systems analyst. She ended her career as a Project Manager add also returned to college and graduated Summa Cum lade with a BA in Information Systems
Management.
In 2023, Janice started working/volunteering at Headquarters. She’s been working on cleaning up the files and re-working some of the areas to get ready for rentals. While she is at headquarters she as the added bonus of seeing her grandchildren.
Past Honorees
2025 Janice King
2022 Christine Fincherand
2022 Carol Coughran
2020 Marlene Gillman – Killeen
2020 Karen Murrell – Dallas
2019 Betty Edwards – Kermit
2018 Lee Taylor
2017 Carol Moore
2016 Johanna Taylor & Charlotte Elrod
2015 Sarah McReynolds
2014 Eleanor Floeck
2013 Kathy Cox
2012 Sandee Walters & Idalia Aguilar
2011 Jacki Simmers
2010 Ruby Brigman
2009 Judy Keillor
2008 Sudie Blackburn
2007 Carol Russell
2006 Joyce Cochran
2005 Dottie Sivess
2004 Jean Mills
2003 Sue Durett
2002 Merlene Cain
2001 Barbara Baker
2000 Diane Whitaker
1999 Ina Brundrett
1998 Alice Davies
1997 Jayne Martin
1996 Mary Louise Barr
1995 Pauline Brown
1994 Lucy Hendy
1993 Renee Blaschke
1992 Linda Whetsell & Hazel Somerville
1991 Margaret Sharpe
1990 Edna Fuchs
1989 Christine Brown
1988 Noble Smith
1987 Betty Johnson
1986 Bertie Ferris & Nell Denman
1985 Esther Clinton
1984 Guyneth Priem
1983 Hazel McCoy
1982 Ruth Jenks
1981 Mary Louise Michie & Mrs. W. B. Carroll
1980 Ethel Spears
1978 Stella Scott
1977 Margaret Coil
1976 Frances Ellis
1975 Sue Smith
1974 Kay Bozek
1973 Ethel Orr
1972 Bea Dooley
1971 Madge Horn
1970 Bea Dooley
1969 Norma Barton
1968 Virginia Weaver
1967 Welma Aiken
1966 Marion Campbell
1965 Magnolia Greene
1964 Gertrude Windsor
1963 Henrietta Kilpatrick
1962 Mabel Caldwell
1961 Annie Puryear
1960 Mary Kittel
1959 Bess Buchanan
1958 Annavi Buchanan
1957 Esther Miller
1956 Nora Berry
1955 Inez Coffey
1954 Mollie Salois
1953 Nita Harmon
1952 Minnie Marcus
1951 Marianne Scruggs