Kittie Fenley Parker Explained

Kittie Fenley Parker
Other Names:	Kittie Lucille Fenley Parker
Birth Name:	Kittie Lucille Fenley
Death Place:	San Diego, California
Occupation:	Botanist, educator

Kittie Fenley Parker (1910–1994) was a botanist for the National Museum of Natural History and author of An Illustrated Guide to Arizona Weeds.

Biography

Parker née Fenley was born in 1910.^[1] She attended the University of California, Berkeley and earned her PhD from the University of Arizona in 1946. She began her teaching career at the University of Arizona's School of Agriculture where she taught from 1949 through 1953.^[2] She went on to teach botany at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.^[3] She was a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History from 1959 through 1989.^[4] Parker was a member of the Botanical Society of Washington and the Potomac Chrysanthemum Society.^[3]

In 1972 Parker published An illustrated guide to Arizona weeds which was illustrated by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton.^[5]

Parker died in San Diego, California on November 9, 1994.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Index of Botanists . Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries . 22 April 2022 . en.
2. Book: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Education and Training . Smithsonian Research Opportunities: Fine Arts, History, Science, 1968–1969 . 1967 . en.
3. Book: California Botanical Society . Kittie Fenley Parker – Obituary . Madroño; a West American journal of botany . California Botanical Society . 22 April 2022 . 1995. 42 .
4. Web site: Women of the US National Herbarium . Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History . 22 April 2022 . en.
5. Web site: Illustrated Guide to Arizona Weeds . UAPress . 22 April 2022 . 12 July 2017.