Listing of Past Presidents

  • 1931-1933 *Mrs. Mary Webb Robb                               Nicholasville
  • 1933-1935 *Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis                             Paris
  • 1935-1937 *Mrs. Theodore f. Roemelle                          Louisville
  • 1937-1939 *Mrs. Earl D. Rabold                                    Bowling Green
  • 1939-1941 *Mrs. J. Kidwell Grannis                              Flemingsburg
  • 1941-1943  *Mrs. H. Alvin Stilz                                     Lexington
  • 1943-1945 *Mrs. Augustus Thomas                              Frankfort
  • 1945-1947 *Mrs. Dena Shelby Diehl                              Danville
  • 1947-1949 *Mrs. David B. Honaker                               Lexington
  • 1949-1951 *Mrs. Leslie V. Abbott                                 Louisville
  • 1952-1953 *Thelma Blair                                              Corbin
  • 1953-1955 *Mrs. Edgar M. Young                                 Providence
  • 1955-1957 *Ethel Steiner                                              Lexington
  • 1957-1959 *Sarah Pursifull                                           Pineville
  • 1959-1961 *Mrs. Charles D. Highland                           Sterling
  • 1961-1963 *Marjorie Gott.                                            Louisville
  • 1963-1965 *Kate Combs                                               Hazard
  • 1965-1967 *Ruth Layson                                              Millersburg
  • 1967-1969 *Jane Morris                                                Lexington
  • 1969-1971 *Cindy Fifer                                                Louisville
  • 1971-1973 *Polly Henderson                                        Louisville
  • 1973-1975 *Margaret Blevins                                       Lexington
  • 1975-1977 *Charlotte Baldwin                                       Madisonville
  • 1977-1979 Joan Wipperman                                         Louisville
  • 1979-1981 *Martha Porter                                            Lexington
  • 1981-1983 *Geneva Blue                                              Providence
  • 1983-1985 *Nancy Vogt                                                Ashland
  • 1985-1987 *Miriam Mann                                            Louisville
  • 1987-1989 Jo Jean Scott                                                Alvaton
  • 1989-1991 *Carey Huddleston                                       Middlesboro
  • 1991-1993 Becky Oliver                                               Cadiz
  • 1993-1995 Carolyn Roof                                              Paducah
  • 1995-1997 *Anne Hoskins                                             Corbin
  • 1997-1999 *Martha Sims                                              Flemingsburg
  • 1999-2001 Martha Morgan                                           Bowling Green
  • 2001-2003  *Sandra Robinson                                         London
  • 2003-2005 *Mary Keown                                             Bowling Green
  • 2005-2007 Ann Fiel                                                     Morehead
  • 2007-2009 *Martha Mengel                                           Elizabethtown
  • 2009-2011 Kay Fisher                                                  Lexington
  • 2011-2013 Dianne Caines                                             Frankfort
  • 2013-2015 Joanna Kirby                                               Lancaster
  • 2015-2017 Edith Nelson                                               Bowling Green
  • 2017-2019 Paula Hyatt                                                Flemingsburg
  • 2019-2021 Donna Smith                                               Middlesboro
  • 2021-2023 Carcille C. Burchette                                   Corbin
  • 2023-2025 Susan Throneberry                                   Alvaton

*Deceased 

NATIONAL GARDEN CLUB PRESIDENTS
FROM KENTUCKY

1939-1941 *Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis (Nannine)             Paris
2015-2017 *Sandra H. Robinson                             London

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