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Lois Rossten


JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA

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I was very sad to hear this!

Lois’s Memorial Service will be at Faith Lutheran Church located at 8200 Ellis Ave, Huntington Beach, Ca. 92646 at 1:00 PM. on Saturday 7/16/2011.

Jeff Rood

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Sad news...

another long time dedicated member been here long enough to have a palm named after them.

So...tour, or service..:huh::(

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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I'm very sorry to learn this sad news. Lois and Kurt were most kind to me when I was a rank beginner. Thousands of cultivated palms are the results of Lois' years of effort for the IPS seedbank.

San Francisco, California

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I quickly got to know Kurt and Lois many years ago when I first joined the PSSC and the IPS. Lois was such a wonderfully dedicated person and we always had great conversations. I am truly sad to hear this. My thoughts are with Kurt and the family and I will surely miss not seeing Lois at future Biennials.

Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm

 

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We are very,very saddened, to hear the news, of Lois passing on. We so enjoyed their company, each time we ran into them at Palm society meetings and biennials and always loved to hear her stories of all their biennial travels, throughout Lois and Kurts lifetime together.

She was a palm enthusiast as well as a very enthusiastic lady in life. Our best wishes are with Kurt and their family now and the memories of our times with them, will always remain in our thoughts.

Our love to you both, Jerry & Cindy Andersen

Jerry D. Andersen

JD Andersen Nursery

Fallbrook, CA / Leilani Estates, HI

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My thoughts and sympathy go out to Kurt in his time of grief - always a sad situation when such a long term relationship is severed by the death of the other. And sad for her extended palm/plant family that included many, and that reaches back over so many years. We will all miss her dearly.

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Kona, on The Big Island
Hawaii - Land of Volcanoes

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Does anyone have any pictures of her they can post?

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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Very sad to hear this, I wish Kurt a lot of strength in this difficult period

Very sweet and gentle people, I had the privilege to talk to on a few biennials

Her memory will live on here in Portugal, the tiny seed of Sabal "riverside" I got from her is a massive tree now

Charles Wychgel

Algarve/Portugal

Sunset zone 24

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Very sad to hear..

Best wishes Mikey..

M.H.Edwards

"Living in the Tropic's

And loving it".............. smilie.gif

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Sad to hear about Lois. I always seemed to run into Kurt and Lois in airports going to and from the Biennials. We spent lots of time talking during layovers about the trips she made to the Biennials before I became interested in palms. It got to the point I would expect them to be at the gate waiting for a flight to someplace palmy every time I went anywhere.

I've still got a few trees growing from seed she provided to the seedbank.

Alan Brickey

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  • 2 months later...

We are very,very saddened, to hear the news, of Lois passing on. We so enjoyed their company, each time we ran into them at Palm society meetings and biennials and always loved to hear her stories of all their biennial travels, throughout Lois and Kurts lifetime together.

She was a palm enthusiast as well as a very enthusiastic lady in life. Our best wishes are with Kurt and their family now and the memories of our times with them, will always remain in our thoughts.

Our love to you both, Jerry & Cindy Andersen

Everything said above is exactly how we also feel on Lois' passing.

Al and Silvia Bredeson

Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

 

No record of a hurricane passing over this island (yet!).  

Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

Nice sunsets!

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