C.Z. Guest Dies

NewsMax ^ | 11/9/03 | AP

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

NEW YORK — C.Z. Guest, a gardening columnist and fixture of New York society, died Saturday at her home in Old Westbury, N.Y. She was 83.

An enthusiastic horsewoman, Guest began writing about gardening after being hurt in a riding accident in 1976. While recovering, she began giving friends advice about gardening over the phone and started writing columns for the New York Post in 1978.

She also wrote several books, including "First Garden" (1987), with an introduction by her friend, author Truman Capote.

As a writer, Guest was known for her plainspoken style and wide-ranging gardening expertise; she wrote on everything from landscaping to how to plant tomato seeds.

In 1984, Guest served as commissioner general of the American garden exhibit of the International Garden Festival in Liverpool, England.

She was also known for her personal style, routinely being named to best-dressed lists. She designed a line of clothing in 1985.

Guest was born Lucy Cochrane in Boston in 1920. Her siblings called her "Sissy," a nickname she later adapted to "C.Z."

She dabbled in acting in the 1940s -- including an appearance in the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway in 1944 -- before marrying Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, a second cousin of Winston Churchill, in 1947. He died in 1982.

They were active in international society, hosting such luminaries as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and visiting the Maharaja of Jaipur in India.

[South40]

C.Z. Guest

[clintonh8r]

Is Christopher Guest her son?

[nothingnew]

Pushin' up daisies, eh?

(I apologize, there was no call for that! I'm going out to the garden and eat worms...)...oof!...no call for that either!....I've just sacked myself.

FMCDH

[mabelkitty]

and, mother of Deb of the Decade, Cornelia Guest.

[beckett]

She had a colorful life and knew a lot of interesting people. She was in the thick of it, and that is often a sign of a well lived life.

[ladylib]

No, but I bet she's related to him.

Christopher Guest inherited a barony in the UK, and his wife, Jamie Lee Curtis, is the Baroness, Lady Haden-Guest.

[beckett]

Is Christopher Guest her son?

Nope. From the Palm Beach Post:

In addition to her two children [Alexander and Cornelia], Mrs. Guest is survived by three grandsons: Gregory, 13; Winston, 9; and Ivor, 6.

[since1868]

...and I wont forget to roses on your grave R.S.