S. L. Timme
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Name
Stephen Lee Timme
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Dates
27 Aug 1950 - 10 Apr 2012
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Specialities
Bryophytes
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Roles
Determiner, Collector
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Movement Details
United States of America, Peru
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Notes
Collector Notes: KSP
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From Flora of North America Newsletter 26(1): 15 (2012):
Stephen Lee Timme
1950–2012
Stephen Lee Timme, professor emeritus at Pittsburgh
State University and Curator Emeritus of the T.M.
Sperry Herbarium, died April 10, 2012, at the age of 61.
He was born August 27, 1950 in Kansas City, Kansas,
the son of William Everett and Esther Mae Timme. He
served from 1969 to 1970 in the U.S. Army 101st Airborne
Division in Vietnam, receiving two purple hearts. He
received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology from
Missouri State University (1978, 1981) and Ph.D. in
botany from Mississippi State University (1985).
Stephen taught biology, botany, ecology, and plant
taxonomy at Pittsburg State University for nearly 20 years.
His research specialties included bryophyte systematics,
floristics and ecology, and tropical botany. He authored
the treatment for Vesicularia (Hypnaceae), which will
appear in FNA Volume 28. Stephen was active in the
native plant societies of Kansas and Missouri and was
an avid photographer. Many of his photographs appear
in the four books that he authored or co-authored:
Wildflowers of Mississippi, Wildflowers of the Natchez
Trace, Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper
Amazon, and Wildflowers of Southeast Kansas.
He is survived by his wife, Susan Lee (Shroyer)
Rozgaja; two sons, Caleb Timme and Zach Timme,
both of Pittsburg, Kansas; his mother, Esther Timme,
Harrisonville, Missouri; two brothers, Wyatt Timme
Arvada, Colorado and Matthew Timme, Harrisonville,
Missouri; and one sister, Robin Timme, Archie, Missouri.
—Craig C. Freeman (KANU) -
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