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  • From: Sam Brungardt <sam739is@hotmail.com>
  • To: "nafex@lists.ibiblio.org" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [nafex] Jerry Lehman
  • Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 17:32:31 +0000

I've been a NAFEX member for quite a while and have followed the work that
Jerry was doing with native persimmons. However, I did not know him socially,
always intending to visit with him at length at a NAFEX annual meeting and to
make that trip to Indiana to see his work. Sorry to say that neither of
those things ever happened. I did visit with him briefly a couple of times
and found him to be a helpful and likable person.

It's clear that Jerry was one of those persons who was key to the success of
our organization. For many of our members he was not only a friend but also a
goldmine of information about native persimmons. Perhaps the best memorial we
could give Jerry would be to ensure that someone will obtain the cultivars he
had collected or developed and to establish a back-up collection at some
arboretum or university -- something, unfortunately, that is always subject
to the fiscal whims of politicians and administrators.

Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn., USDA Zone 4b





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