Gwen Wilson

Life is What You Make It; Make it Happy Gwen M. Wilson, 79, died at home on October 17, 2016, surrounded by her family, after a seven-year long struggle with the terminal and insidious breath-stealing disease of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Flowers everywhere in Strafford County dipped their petals, bowed their blooms, and shed a drop of dew at the passing of the Co-Founder of Strafford's Garden Club. Held in esteem by people and plants throughout the county, she was revered as the plant lady with a consummate green thumb who could answer questions, solve issues, and turn any Charlie Brown type of woeful Christmas tree into one worthy of adorning Rockefeller Plaza. She was truly Strafford County's hidden garden gem as any local gardener would tell you. Gwen's happy beginnings stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from the small village of Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex, England where she was born to George and Alice May. As a child during World War II, she learned of hardships and rationings but also of family...