Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Heutte, Frederic July 29, 1979
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Virginian-Pilot  July 31, 1979
Like other living things he admired, Frederic Heutte had his season, and a long 
and fruitful one it was. When he died this week at 80, he was the prince of 
gardeners in this corner of Virginia, yet his acclaim - and the honors 
acknowledging it - reached as far as England and his native France.
Fortune, in one of her happier moods, brought him to Virginia in 1936, after a 
career as an estate gardener in New York State. Late that year he was tolled to 
Norfolk as a landscape horticulturist by City Manager Thomas P. Thompson, who had 
a vision of the old seaport as a garden spot
As Norfolk’s superintendent of parks for 30 years thereafter, Mr. Heutte 
translated the dream to flourishing reality. He planted 25,000 crape myrtles, 
created an Azalea Garden and founded the municipal Botanical Gardens.
He was less public servant though, than resident guru to those who loved plants. 
He taught, he lectured, he wrote, all to one end: the conviction that the 
communion of seed and soil - even a mean scrap of marsh - could create beauty in 
the beholder as well as the beheld.
Mr. Heutte was an artist, with the earth as his canvas and its bounty his 
pallette. He showed that the human hand that can split an atom or squeeze a 
trigger is also capable of fashioning grandeur and joy. His life was rewarding not 
only to himself but to the thousands of beneficiaries, who in years to come, will 
marvel to behold his creations embracing spring.

HEUTTE, FREDERIC – In a Norfolk hospital, Sunday, FREDERIC HEUTTE, husband of Mrs. 
Florence Alford Heutte and son of the late Louis and Mrs. Minnie Erb Heutte, in 
the 80th year of his age. A Joyful Mass of the Resurrection will be held in 
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church Tuesday at 10 a.m. Burial, St. Mary’s Cemetery. 
H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk, has charge.

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