US: Edwards Greenhouse matriarch passed away at 94
Edwards was born in 1921 on a sheep ranch in Emmett and spent much of her childhood in Payette, where her parents worked and farmed.
“Mom was very proud of her hometown and made sure we, her daughters, visited often and shared her enthusiasm,” Garnette Edwards wrote in an obituary. “We were convinced that our family car knew how to get there on its own.”
Edwards’ lifelong love of horticulture took full bloom when, as a young adult, she worked for her sister at Genoway’s Payette Greenhouse. That’s also where she met Paul Edwards, “a handsome young greenhouse grower from Boise,” the obituary said.
The two married in 1951 and worked together at Edwards Greenhouse — the business Paul Edwards took over from his father in 1947, when it was 17 years old.
The Edwardses changed the greenhouse from a wholesale operation to a full garden center in the 1970s. During the decades Dody Edwards worked in the garden center, she developed a knack for remembering customers’ names and orders.
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