She was first vice president and president of the Rappahannock Garden Club for two years each. She steps up to host or assist in luncheons, dinners and other community events. Her feet have never touched the ground.
Her stories and life are rich. Her one son swam the English Channel and her other one was in the Little League World Series with the Tuckahoe Little League All Stars. Her grandson, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, is currently assigned to a Navy Seal team as an explosive ordi- nance demolition team member.
Memorial rose for Belle.
Following the death of her long time companion Belle, a Newfoundland, she planted a memorial rose in her garden. Belle was a fixture in Edna Earle’s yard for 13 years and 3 months. With a normal life expectancy of 8 to 10 years, this dog’s long life attests to good loving care. Speaking of life expectancy, with so much to do and celebrate, Edna Earle remains in her youthful early 80s with a sense of humor and what my mother would term “lady like behavior.” When her garden club ran a fundraiser with the prize being tickets to the musical “Wicked,” guess who decided to dress as a witch and confront everyone she saw to buy the chances. For a month or so, everywhere she went she sold tickets. More than half of all the combined members in the club! So if you are in this area of Virginia and notice a whirlwind, an attractive and well dressed one, you may want to stop and observe, it may be Edna Earle Mizelle, the Grand Dam of the Northern Neck. H
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