Congratulations to Gatewood's Flower shop on its seventy fifth anniversary. The family unit-owned retail floral business has offered the citizens of Americus and beyond with effective service and delightful blooms considering the fact that its founding.
closing Saturday night close dusky dark, Leon Holloway, current owner/manager, become honored at a gorgeous reception at the Carnegie on South Jackson highway. He, along with the shop's team of workers, welcomed the large number of chums from here and beyond who loved a bountiful candlelight buffet, tune, and wine set towards a backdrop of glowing silver and delightful floral preparations far and wide you regarded.
The flower shop become centered by way of Holloway's outstanding-aunt, Mrs. Furlow T. Gatewood Jr. "miss" plant life, in 1944, and turned into observed at Flowood, the spacious Gatewood household property on the Macon road. She ran the business out of the family's nineteenth century barn/carriage apartment.
When her oldest son, Furlow Gatewood III, returned domestic after serving within the U.S. Air force right through World war II (I've heard he changed into accompanied with the aid of his dog trigger as flight mascot), he joined his mom to support function the flower store.
a number of years later, Gatewood left the floral company to head to ny city to be part of the firm of John Roselli as an vintage broker, where he lived and worked for years. earlier than leaving Americus, the barn/carriage condominium turned into renovated and transformed into a unique home that Gatewood named The Barn and the place he stayed on his many visits domestic. After he retired The Barn grew to become his permanent domestic.
"leave out" plants at last moved the florist enterprise to a shop in the 200 block of West Lamar road the place The Vogue changed into once located. She endured to function the flower shop unless she offered it to Bettie Gatewood Duke, Leon Holloway's maternal aunt, in 1961. Leon began working there half-time in 1969. He says he started his job of providing flora to consumers the identical day he began courses as a freshman at Georgia Southwestern faculty. in the meantime, the shop moved again to a larger area at 221 W. Lamar St., and Leon became even more concerned in the business.
Leon's enterprise accelerated in 1975, when he and his cousin, Jane Kelly, opened Cousins Catering at the Carnegie building. He remembers the primary wedding/reception they catered became for Americus bride Barbara Osborne. Gatewood's flora moved there in 1991, however moved once more in 2000, when he purchased the building at 304 W. Lamar St, the current location.
Congratulations to Leon Holloway, and his gifted and productive workforce and most desirable needs for a different successful seventy five years of featuring us with brilliant and delightful flora.
among these I spotted at the reception have been Dee Hardin, Charlie Crisp of Moultrie, his daughter Jenny Crisp of Leesburg, invoice and Ann Harris, Herschel and Pam Smith, Ricky and Jane Arnold, Joe and Jarrett Hooks, Mary and Dan Torbert, George and Shea Torbert, Rebecca McNeill, and daughter, Lynn Anderson of Toccoa, and daughter-in-legislation, Sandra McNeill of Americus, Burton and Elaine Thomas, John and Lydia Ann Fowler, John and Rachel Shealy, Karen and Greg Austin, Glynn and Amy Holloway, Donnie fee, Terry and Bobbi Duncan, Mary Marshall, Charles and Becky Pryor and their little ones; Ann and George Peagler, Lou Chase, Frances Rawlins, Brad and Mary Lafevres, Steve and Jeannie Stanfield, Reba and Sam Hunter Jr., Ed and JoAnn Pope, Carson and Marylyn Walker, Allene and Sparky Reeves, Jim and Carleen Peace, Hope Henderson, Betty Lee Scott, Meg Scott, Joey Dunn, Cameron Cummings, Louis and Sumner Resnick of Leesburg.
elsewhere, Rebecca McNeill's country home in the New era community become the website for an historic fashioned "southern" luncheon ultimate Saturday given in honor of Kaye McNeill, February bride of John McNeill. Kaye grew up in Macon County however had made her home in Ocilla for a number of years. among the visitors had been Lynn Anderson, Sandra McNeill, Mary Collier, Janet Kinnebrew, Ann Hart of Albany, Martha Souther of Douglas, Casey McNeill Kilgore of Tifton, Claire Clayton of Ocilla, Kat Clayton of Hahira, Mary Rush, and Margie ordinary. Welcome to Americus, Kaye McNeill.
and home from Athens and the recent backyard club of Georgia board of administrators meeting are Faye Frazier, Drenda Sternenberg, Janice Cliett, and Willie Maxwell. a couple of of those ladies are competing within the commonplace Flower exhibit on the Georgia national reasonable in Perry this weekend.
Leila Sisson Case lives in Americus.
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