College. She lived for more than 50 years with

College. She lived for more than 50 years with her family at Wildcat Mountain Farm near Warrenton.

An exceptional artistic talent was reflected in her many paintings and drawings, as well as the gardens she designed and built at her family’s home.

Each detail of a medieval herb garden, a Bible garden, and an outstanding collection of old roses was guided by careful research into ancient herbals and other garden books in her rare personal collection.

Both she and her late husband, Pepsi-Cola executive Russell M. Arundel, had a deep love of the natural environment. In the 1960s, they donated much of their own land to The Nature Conservancy, which preserves it today as a natural area.

Mrs. Arundel received wideranging national and international awards for her achievements, including the prestigious 1996 Garden Club of America Medal of Honor for outstanding contribution to horticulture.

Others include the Garden Club of Virginia’s deLacy Gray Memorial Award (1991), the World Wildlife Fund Award of Honor, the Garden Club of America Achievement Medal (1985), the 1995 Stewardship of the Land Award from the Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the American Horticultural Society award for “Communicator of the Year” (1991).

Her vibrant life spanned the 20th century. She saw the arrival of electric lights, the automobile, airplane, telephone, radio, television, the computer, nuclear power and a man on the moon.

In her 1996 award acceptance talk to the Garden Club of America, she said, “We cannot with impunity take for granted this lovely, watered, temperate, pristine Earth and its life forms ... all as we revolve around the sun in the 200-degree below zero void of space, safely clasped so far in the this mantle of lifegiving atmosphere. What an exciting ride!”

Mrs. Arundel leaves two children: her son, Virginia news