New Rose Festival Queen Named
Posted/updated on: January 10, 2011 at 1:17 pm
TYLER — The Queen and her court of the 2011 Texas Rise Festival have been named. The announcement that Morgan Elizabeth Rippy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Reed Rippy would be the queen was made at a news conference Friday night at the Tyler Rose Museum. Miss Rippy is a 2010 graduate of Grace Community High School in Tyler. She is a freshman at the University of Alabama.
Also, Virginia Winston Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rowe McGrede Anderson, was named Duchess of the Texas Rose Festival. She is a 2010 graduate of All Saints Episcopal High School and she is also a freshman at the University of Alabama.
The theme of this year’s Rose Festival is “The Grand Illusion.” It will run October 13th through 15th.
