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New memorial garden at library will honor late Tiburon resident

A rendering from the Belvedere-Tiburon Library shows the concept for the I’Lee Hooker Memorial Garden honoring the late artist, gardener and volunteer.

A new garden featuring pollinator-friendly native plants at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library will honor late Tiburon artist, nationally recognized gardener and library volunteer I’Lee Hooker.

 

The memorial garden, spearheaded by I’Lee’s husband of 53 years, Library Agency board member Anthony Hooker, will be built near the concrete steps and children’s patio on the side of the building between the library and Town Hall.

 

“The garden brings together a whole series of her loves,” Hooker said of his late wife, who died in November 2019. “Garden, art, poetry and (a) love of children.”


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