The Darling Dahlias Club Roster,
July 1932

CLUB OFFICERS

Elizabeth Lacy, club president. Garden columnist for the Darling Dispatch and secretary to Mr. Moseley, attorney-at-law.

Ophelia Snow, club vice-president and secretary. Linotype operator and sometime reporter at the Darling Dispatch. Wife of Darling’s mayor, Jed Snow.

Verna Tidwell, club treasurer. Acting Cypress County treasurer, manages the Cypress County Probate Clerk’s office.

Myra May Mosswell, communications chairwoman. Co-owner of the Darling Telephone Exchange and the Darling Diner. Lives with Violet Sims and Violet’s baby girl, Cupcake, in the flat over the diner.

CLUB MEMBERS

Earlynne Biddle, a rose fancier. Married to Henry Biddle, the manager at the Coca-Cola bottling plant.

Bessie Bloodworth, proprietor of Magnolia Manor, a boardinghouse for genteel ladies.

Fannie Champaign, proprietor of Champaign’s Darling Chapeaux. Sweet on Charlie Dickens, editor and publisher of the Darling Dispatch.

Mrs. George E. Pickett (Voleen) Johnson, president of the Darling Ladies Guild, specializes in pure white flowers. Married to the owner of the Darling Savings and Trust Bank.

Mildred Kilgore, married to Roger Kilgore, the owner of Kilgore Motors. The Kilgores have a big house near the ninth green of the Cypress Country Club, where Mildred grows camellias.

Aunt Hetty Little, gladiola lover, town matriarch, and senior member of the club. A “regular Miss Marple” who knows all the Darling secrets.

Lucy Murphy, grows vegetables and peaches on a small farm on the Jericho Road. Married to Ralph Murphy, who works on the railroad.

Miss Dorothy Rogers, darling’s librarian. Knows the Latin name of every plant and insists that everyone else does, too. Resident of Magnolia Manor.

Beulah Trivette, artistically talented lover of cabbage roses and other exuberant flowers. Owns Beulah’s Beauty Bower, where all the Dahlias go to get beautiful.

Alice Ann Walker, grows iris and daylilies. Her disabled husband, Arnold, tends the family vegetable garden. Cashier at the Darling Savings and Trust Bank.