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Données personnelles Rosalie Mary Yerkes Figge K Pq 1 

• Elle est née le 30 juillet 1909 dans North Carolina.

  Attention: Avait moins de 16 ans (0) lors de la naissance (??-??-1111) de l'enfant (7GrdchldnRosalieYerkes Figge).

  Attention: Avait moins de 16 ans (0) lors de la naissance (??-??-1111) de l'enfant (18GGrdchldnRosalieYerkes Figge).

• Elle est décédée le 10 avril 2006 dans the Stella Maris nursing care center, Timonium, Maryland, elle avait 96 ans.
• Un enfant de Dawson Martin Yerkes et Myrtle Grace Harris
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 17 décembre 2012.

Famille de Rosalie Mary Yerkes Figge K Pq 1

Elle est mariée avec Frank H. J. Figge.

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Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1932, elle avait 22 ans.

Enfant(s):

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2. Barbara Figge  
3. 7GrdchldnRosalieYerkes Figge  1111-????
4. 18GGrdchldnRosalieYerkes Figge  1111-????

Notes par Rosalie Mary Yerkes Figge K Pq 1

Rosalie Mary Yerkes (Figge)daughter of Dawson Martin Yerkes and Myrtle Harris (Yerkes) and wife of Frank H. J. Figge is shown in 2001 at age 92 with two great grandchildren Samuel Harry Fox-Halperin and Amelia Elizabeth Kleiber.

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I think most of you know that my mom died recently. We've tried tonotify as many people as possible. She donated her body to theAnatomy Board of Maryland and we will be having a memorial service onApril 29, 2006 at the Towson Presbyterian Church (in Towson) at 11a.m.What follows is a transcript of her obituary as it appeared in theWashington PostRosalie Yerkes Figge; Iris Grower's Garden Lured Many VisitorsBy Yvonne Shinhoster LambWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, April 22, 2006; Page B06Rosalie Yerkes Figge, 96, a cancer research assistant, editor and irisexpert whose name is synonymous with a deep-violet variation of theflower, died of congestive heart failure April 10 at the Stella Marisnursing-care center in Timonium, Md. She was a resident of Towson.For the first half of her life, Mrs. Figge took care of her family andsupported the cancer research efforts of her husband, Frank H.J.Figge, chairman of the department of anatomy at the University ofMaryland Medical School. She oversaw a colony of 10,000 laboratorymice, and she assisted in the editing and proofreading of the"Sobotta/Figge Atlas of Human Anatomy" (1974 and previous editions).Later, her passion for irises energized the national and internationalcommunity of iris lovers, in which she was considered "aninstitution." Her garden, with its arboretum-quality specimen plants,attracted visitors from around the world. While working with theAmerican Iris Society, she attended almost every national conventionand numerous international iris gatherings.She was a past president of the Reblooming Iris Society, a division ofAIS; a recipient of the society's Distinguished Service Award; andpast president of the Maryland-based Francis Scott Key chapter of AIS.Mrs. Figge, a woman of exceptional insight and wit, encouragedbeginning iris growers, said Clarence Mahan, a McLean resident andpast president of the Reblooming Iris Society."An evangelist for Siberian, Japanese and especially rebloomingirises, she was proud of being the first to promote reblooming irisesin Maryland," Mahan said. "The late Jane McKnew of Pasadena, Maryland,one of her iris proteges, bred and named a beautiful deep-violetreblooming iris in her honor. The iris 'Rosalie Figge' is now one ofthe most popular garden irises in Europe as well as in North America."Mrs. Figge was born in Henderson, N.C., and was a 1931 graduate ofGoucher College in Towson. She married in 1932 and moved to Baltimore.Over the years, Mrs. Figge advocated for her causes and pursued hervocations as if they were full-time jobs. She belonged to numerousgenealogical, horticultural and conservation organizations. She hadbeen a chapter president of the Daughters of the American Revolutionand a docent for the DAR Museum in Washington. She was editing a bookmanuscript for a friend the week before she died.A stickler for parliamentary procedure, she belonged to the Edith S.Stidman unit of the Maryland Association of Parliamentarians and wasparliamentarian of the national American Iris Society at the time ofher death.She served on the board of Florence Crittenton Services and was a lifemember of the Girl Scouts of the USA. She established a fund tosupport undergraduate biology research at Colorado College. GoucherCollege named her a "Goucher Treasure" for 2006.Mrs. Figge, an intellectually curious and intrepid traveler, hadvisited all the continents except Antarctica. In her seventies, shetook her grandchildren on trips abroad. She studied German at alanguage school near Munich and visited five ancient civilizations inone calendar year. Her most recent trip was to England in 2002.Her husband of 41 years died in 1973. A son died in infancy in 1943.Survivors include two daughters, RosalieAnn Figge Beasley ofLeonardtown and Barbara Figge Fox of Princeton, N.J.; sevengrandchildren; and 18 great grandchildren

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