A memorial that will go on growing; PRIZE ROSE BUSH TO BE NAMED FOR WOMAN WHO WILL NEVER SEE IT BLOOM.Byline: BARBARA GOULDEN A NEW rose is being named for a young Coventry woman whose life was cut tragically short by illness. Garden lover Anne-Louise Healy, aged 33, suffered from a rare form of multiple sclerosis and died last Friday after going into a coma following complications. Three days before she died a prize rose bush was delivered to the family home in Lynbrook Road, Canley Gardens, after Anne-Louise's oldest sister Alexandra entered a national newspaper competition. The unique rose is one of five new specimens which commercial growers have decided are beautiful, but perhaps not hardy enough for mass production. They offered the bushes as competition prizes, giving their new owners the right to name and propagate prop·a·gate v. 1. To cause an organism to multiply or breed. 2. To breed offspring. 3. To transmit characteristics from one generation to another. 4. them. Alexandra, aged 34, was sent one of the new varieties after winning the hearts of the judges with her entry explaining why she wanted to name a rose after a sick sister who had spent much of her happy adult life working in the Newpath Nursery run by the charity Coventry Homes. Sadly, Anne-Louise died without ever seeing the bush. It is already budding but will not flower until early summer. Her grieving parents, Anne and Richard Healy said that despite having mild learning difficulties, Anne-Louise lived independently in a shared house in Radford and had gained qualifications in horticulture horticulture [Lat. hortus=garden], science and art of gardening and of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants. Horticulture generally refers to small-scale gardening, and agriculture to the growing of field crops, usually on a large and small animal care from Warwickshire College Warwickshire College is a large further and higher education college in the county of Warwickshire in England. It has some 30,000 students enrolled on courses across five campuses. in Moreton Morrell. Anne-Louise was a keen churchgoer and a Coventry City fan, as well as being a Red Cross first-aider and earned a City and Guilds catering certificate in a bakery and then the tea rooms at the city's Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Herbert Art Gallery and Museum is near to the City Centre of Coventry, England. External links
Mrs Healy said yesterday: "We don't yet know what colour this new rose will be, just that it is offering us some comfort in a time of darkness Star Wars: Time of Darkness is a Star Wars based MUD that formerly ran on the Star Wars Reality codebase. The MUD is currently offline undergoing a major revamp, and will be back, as Version 4.0, in the near future, hopefully boasting many new features. . I think Alexandra and Anne-Louise's younger brothers and sisters, Zara, Jonathan and Dick, are hoping it will be flame-coloured to remind us of her lovely red hair." Anne-Louise Healy's funeral will be held at 11am on Wednesday at St Joseph the Worker Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church, Christian church headed by the pope, the bishop of Rome (see papacy and Peter, Saint). Its commonest title in official use is Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. in Cannon Park Cannon Park is a suburb in the south-west of the City of Coventry, West Midlands, England. It can be accessed via the major roads Kenpas Highway (A45) or Kenilworth Road. The area has a shopping centre of the same name which features food stores, shops and eateries. . CAPTION(S): TRIBUTE: Alexandra Healy with the rose bush she is naming after her late sister Anne-Louise (above left). Main picture: RICHARD NELMES |
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