Hortense was a rare neighbor, colleague, and friend here in Martin, Tennessee, where the Writing Center at the University of Tennessee at Martin carries her name as a tribute to her work teaching English at the institution. Her father, she told me, helped build the house that I lived in from 1970 to 2016.  She was my "neighbor down the road," one of the most admirable people I've known--an avid gardener, a caring, disciplined, and hard-working person. Every spring I live with flowers transplanted from her garden, iris and varieties of daffodils especially.  Generations of students carry her in memory, as do all of us who were her teaching colleagues.  Several years back, maybe decades, when she returned to UT Martin and was in the Hortense Parrish Writing Center, I was lucky enough to capture the attached photo, which has seemed to me since to catch a good bit of her uniquely affirmative character.  Those of us who knew her remain deeply grateful and will keep her in our hearts.

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Mary Hortense Parrish

30 enero, 1917 – 27 mayo, 2019

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