Who is the Nellie Moser clematis named for?

Question

O.k., obviously Nellie Moser but, who was she and why did she have a clematis named after her?

Answer 1

'Nelly Moser' is an heirloom hybrid gardened since 1897, & developed from Clematis lanuginosa (aka, C. florida var. lanuginosa), a Chinese species. The breeder was Marcel Moser of Versailles, France. He took his first bar-flowered hybrid, named for himself, & crossed 'Marcel Moser' with 'Belisaire,' & arrived at 'Nelly Moser.'

Answer 2

* Nellie Moser, the woman behind the popular 34-week Disciple Bible Study series for the United Methodist Publishing House, died May 3 in Nashville. She was 72. More than 1 million people have completed the Bible study program, according to the United Methodist News Service. The series was praised recently by Beverly Gaventa, a New Testament professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and a CENTURY editor at large.

"I have yet to hear anything but rave reviews about it," said Gaventa. "It has become the remedial work for a generation or more that simply didn't have Sunday school." Moser had retired in 2003 after 37 years with the publisher.

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This is all I could find on her.