Jean Miner O'Connell
1912 -1991
Jean Miner O'Connell, our Mother, did not want money to disappear from her estate or her family torn apart to cover it up.
She did a lot for Fairfax County.
She was a charter member of the Springfield Acres Garden Club and a nationally recognized landscape designer who did the landscape designs, without compensation, for:
- The Franconia Olivet Episcopal Church
- The Springfield Richard Byrd Library
- The Commonwealth Hospital in Fairfax
- The Louise Archer Elementry School
- Grandview Farmhouse and mini-pavilion, a National Trust for Hisoric Preservation property at Woodlawn
- A memorial garden in the National Arboretum
- The Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute
- The Woodbridge Methodist Church
- The 18th century Magruder House of the Prince George Historical Society
- The Wolf Trap Elementry School
- The Pope-Leighey House by Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Fair Oaks Hospital
- The Clifton Episcopal Church
- The Oakton Elementry School
- The 4-H Club Headquarters near Front Royal
- The railroad of the abandon W & O Railroad in Vienna
- The Springfield Junior Chamber of Commerce - commercial area plantings.
- The Knoll Garden, Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads, in Fall Church
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