Teacher's Memory Kept Alive In Norristown Garden: Report

When a remembrance garden planted in honor of a teacher who died too young became weedy and overgrown, the Norristown Garden Club stepped in, according to a story in the Times Herald.

Volunteers added daffodils, hyacinths, and other flowers to beautify the garden at Marshall Street Elementary School that had been dug in 1996 when teacher Betsy Gluckman Fitzroy passed away, the report states.

“My sister was a teacher there when, unfortunately, she had a brain aneurysm and passed away during the school year,” her brother, Joel Gluckman, told the Times Herald. “I assume in planting the tree it was a way of honoring my sister but also so that the kids in the class could have a little bit of a good feeling about her, that she wasn’t here anymore but we have this garden in memory of her. We like to think she was a good teacher and I assume that any teacher who had an unfortunate end like that would be honored.”

The club first took note of the garden’s dilapidated condition last spring, and said that they will continue to care for the garden and preserve Ms. Fitzroy’s memory, according to the report.