Minnie Pearl

Doris Graybille, left, a blue-ribbon winner in the National Rose Show at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, shares her top-ranked spray of miniatures with Minne Pearl and Mrs. Kemp Denning, Jr., of Gallatin on Sept. 23, 1982. Mrs. Denning received the top award for an arrangement of roses and Minnie was honored during the Show with the introduction of a bloom named in her honor.

(J.T. Phillips / The Tennessean)

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