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April 26 - May 3, 2008 Dresden, Tennessee
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Festival History 2008
Honoraries
2008
Executive Board


2008
• Grand Marshal(s): Miss Tennessee Grace Gore
• Citizen of the Year: To be announced!
• Golden Irises: To be announced!


Past Honoraries

2007
• Grand Marshal(s): State Senator Lowe Finney
• Honorary Grand Marshalls: 1987 Dresden High School Baseball Team
• Citizen of the Year: County Commissioner Jimmy Westbrook
• Volunteer of the Year: Lou Ann Powers
• Golden Irises: Shirley Alexander, Edith Dilday, and Mary Myrick

2006
• Grand Marshal(s): Dresden Civic Clubs: Dresden Rotary Club, Dresden Lions Club, Dresden Pilot Club
• Citizen of the Year: Jerry Moubray
• Volunteer of the Year: Master Gardeners
• Golden Irises: Reverend Harold T. Conner, Sr., Rebecca McClain King, and Nancy Matlock

2005
• Grand Marshal(s): Chad Clifton
• Honorary Grand Marshall: Suzie German
• Citizen of the Year: Junior Moore
• Volunteer of the Year: Joyce Reynolds
• Golden Irises: Kay Salmon, Lynda Shannon, Barbara Hutcherson, Tillman Arrant, Wanda Arrant, and Verna Marcus.

2004
• Theme: “Reminiscing”
• Grand Marshal(s): Incorporators of the First Festival: Bill Featherstone, Sandra Klutts, Joan Foland, Tom Reavis, Eulaine and Bobby Moubray, Billie Jean Mansfield, Tom Beard, Mike Parrish, and Tem Chandler.
• Honorary Grand Marshalls: TN National Guard Unit 1174
• Citizen of the Year:
• Golden Irises:

2003
• Theme: “Patriotic”
• Grand Marshall(s): George Thomas
• Citizen of the Year: Tommy Moore
• Golden Irises: Allen Strawbridge, James H. Westbrook, James Wayne Moubray, Madge Winstead, Sarah Ann Pentecost, Gladys L. Simmons, Lowell Moubray, and “Woody” Covington

2002
• Grand Marshal(s): Eddie Capps
• Citizen of the Year: Richard D. Hutcherson, DDS
• Golden Irises: Mike Pentecost, Royal Pinkston, Lou Ann Powers, Mignon Mayo, Camille Amann, and Guynell Holman

2001
• Theme: “Saluting the Volunteer Spirit”
• Grand Marshal(s):Dresden Veterans from the US Armed Forces: Wayne Fisher, Bill McClain, Steven Warrilow, Dan Honeycutt, William D. Bradley, William Miller, and Calvin Shobe
• Citizen of the Year: Joan Foland
• Golden Irises: Jane Jeter Walker, Sue Maddox, Frances Nell Perry, Nell Winfrey, Carol Hutcherson, W.M. White, Walter Bennett, & Fred Stoker
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