Biography

                                                       Now the Trumpet was to have been the central jewel

                                                in a tiara of gems gracing the achievements of Daisy

                                                Elmore Tennant.  But the Lord needed a lyricist of

                                                her stature in heaven, and called her there the

                                                morning of January 25, 1984, a few weeks after she had

                                               received the Nortex Book  Award from the Poetry

                                                Society of Texas.  Her attendance at the Awards

                                                Banquet was Daisy's last public appearance.  

                                                       Her innate charm may have been a childhood

                                                heritage from her native Mississippi, but the West

                                                Texas environment of many years spent in Odessa

                                                accounted for her durability, reminiscent of the        

                                                deep-rooted mesquite; her code of self-subsistence

                                                to the rugged saguaro, and her adaptability to the

                                                adversities of fate to the ever-changing but always

                                                re-emerging sand dunes of which she wrote.  Her

                                                efficiency as a Dallas memer of PST complete the

                                                meager vignette of this loved poet.

                                                        Daisy was first winner of the National Federation of

                                               State Poetry Societies Grand Prize.  Few were the

                                                years that she did not win one or more PST awards.

                                               Her poems appeared in many magazines and        

                                                anthologies.  She published three volumes of poetry:

                                                Shifting Sands, Miss Fitts and Miss Cellany, and the

                                               honored Now the Trumpet.

                                                       She served PST as program chairman, treasurer,

                                               secretary and monthly contest chairman.  She was

                                               listed in Who's Who of American Women.  In

                                                addition to PST(Poetry Society of Texas) and

                                                NFSPS  (National Federation of State Poetry

                                                Socities) she belonged to Poetry Society of America,

                                                World Order of Storytellers, and Poetry Society of

                                                Mississippi.

                                                       Her dedication to her muse was matched by her        

                                                devotion to her faith and study of the Bible.  Her

                                                abiding love was for Nancy and Sharon, her

                                                daughters, her four grand-children and four sisters.

                                                                                                               Ruth Grundy

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