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Louis Marcel Lenz
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Professor, horticulturist.
Born on a farm near Bede on 30 May 1933, one of three children of Louis Henry Lenz (1890-1961) and Maymie Irene Grose (1902-1966), brother of newspaper publisher August W. Lenz, he attended Bede School before his family moved to Brandon in 1952. He graduated from the Brandon Collegiate (1953), then received a BSc degree from Brandon College (1957), a BSA degree from the University of Manitoba (1960), and an MSc degree in Horticulture from Ohio State University (1963).
He taught courses in Horticulture at the University of Manitoba for 31 years until retirement in 1995 and developed the Pink Beauty and Mango Tango cultivars of Potentilla bushes, among others. He served on the Planning Committee of the International Peace Garden, was a founding member of the Friends of Assiniboine Park Conservatory, and was an active member of the Western Canadian Society for Horticulture and Manitoba Nursery and Landscape Association. He was Chairman of the Prairie Garden Editorial Committee for nine years. He was President of the Winnipeg Horticultural Society, Treasurer of the Manitoba Regional Lily Society, and a board member of the Manitoba Greenhouse Growers Association. In his spare time, he enjoyed nature photography and model railroading.
In recognition of his contributions to Manitoba horticulture, he received a University of Manitoba Outreach Award (1986), a Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Campbell Outreach Award (1990), and a Stevenson Commemorative Award from the Manitoba Horticultural Association (2010). He was made an honorary life member of the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science (2000).
He died unmarried at Winnipeg on 13 August 2024.
Birth registration [Mayme Irene Grose], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Louis Henry Lenz, Mayme Irene Grose], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1931 Canada census, Ancestry.
“Scholarship winners,” Brandon Sun, 9 May 1953, page 1.
“City gold medallist now in U.S.,” Brandon Sun, 10 September 1960, page 19.
“Brandonites graduate from Ohio State U.,” Brandon Sun, 6 September 1963, page 3.
Obituary [Maymie Irene Lenz], Brandon Sun, 9 April 1966, page 16.
“The new chairperson of the Prairie Garden Committee - Professor Louis Lenz,” The 1981 Prairie Garden, page 7.
Reflections of Time: A History of the R.M. of Albert by R.M. of Albert History Book, 1984, pages 87-88, 638.
“Manitoba bred Pink Beauty wins acclaim,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 December 1998, page 95.
“Honorary life member in CSHS: Louis Marcel Lenz,” The 2001 Prairie Garden, pages 111-112.
“A. P. Stevenson Commemorative Award presented to Prof. Louis Lenz,” The 2011 Prairie Garden, pages 115-117.
Obituary, Dignity Memorial.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 24 August 2024.
“Faces I knew now gone” by Kevin Rollason, Winnipeg Free Press email newsletter, 1 September 2024.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Linda Dietrick for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 September 2024
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