{"id":13005,"date":"2016-01-15T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccmga.aces.edu\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2019-09-13T08:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:39:14","slug":"a-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/a-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute: Ed and Wilma Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-13015 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2015\/10\/Ed-Wilma-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Wilma and Ed\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2015\/10\/Ed-Wilma-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2015\/10\/Ed-Wilma-768x693.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2015\/10\/Ed-Wilma-1024x924.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2015\/10\/Ed-Wilma-250x226.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chilton County Master Gardeners\u00a0lost two long time members in 2015. Thomas Edward (Ed) and Wilma Jean Simmons were part of the 2000 Chilton County Master Gardener class and were active members of CCMGA for thirteen years. They participated in many Master Gardener activities including propagating plants, working plant sales, and helping with the Demo Garden. They volunteered to pick figs and cut fruit for the annual CREC Farm, Home and Wildlife Expo.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ed was a familiar figure at the ACES Peach Producers Meeting and the ACES Vegetable Marketing Program for Growers Meeting where he helped with set up and take down. He coordinated fig pruning between CREC and Master Gardeners. He taught many of us when and how to propagate fig trees. He served two years as CCMGA treasurer.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wilma could be counted on to help in a variety of ways such as preparing plants for sales, packing seeds, preparing fruits and desserts for the CREC Expo, and the annual\u00a0planting of the beautiful flowers in downtown Clanton.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">CCMGA member Renee` Powers remembers them as having gentle sincere spirits and that it was always a pleasure to work along side them on any project.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ed and Wilma quietly contributed their talents to CCMGA and were always willing to show up and help. CCMGA is proud that they were members of our Master Gardener family.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Visit\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martinfuneralhomeinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Funeral Home<\/a>\u00a0to read their obituaries and learn more about their interesting lives<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008457\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilton County Master Gardeners\u00a0lost two long time members in 2015. Thomas Edward (Ed) and Wilma Jean Simmons were part of the 2000 Chilton County Master Gardener class and were active members of CCMGA for thirteen years. They participated in many Master Gardener activities including propagating plants, working plant sales, and helping with the Demo Garden. 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