Still Life: Remembering Watercolor Artist Zena Arnim Rowley

Happy Birthday to Aunt Zena.

Thank you for giving us your beautiful paintings to grace our walls.




Zena Arnim Rowley was born in Schulenburg, Texas on October 24 1885.

Her father passed away when she was still a young girl.

Her father was Feodor Charles Arnim.

A few years later she moved with her sister, Bessie Ida Arnim Varley, and two brothers to Orange, California.

Her mother moved the family out to California to be with her brother Uncle Thee, Theodore Beall Laidley.

They lived at 221 South Glassell/

Her house has been restored and it is recognized by the Old Towne Orange Preservation Association.

They all would be so happy to see how their house looks today.


Aunt Zena married Joseph Rowley.

She loved to play bridge and paint watercolors.

Bessie Arnim Varley, Helen Virginia Arnim, Zena Arnim Rowley

Rest In Peace, Aunt Zena and thank you for loving us.

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Bessie Ida Arnim Varley: Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to a wonderful Grandmother.


Bessie Ida Arnim Varley:

October 17, 1887--July 16, 1981

Her blouse is so beautiful.  Did she make it--she always did a lot of sewing.

F. C. Arnim, her baby brother at their house in Orange, California--about 1910.

Frances Charles Arnim and his mother, Helen Virginia Laidley Arnim still in Texas.

She would be so happy to see her house today.  She loved her family and the house her mother built when she came out to Orange, California from Texas after her husband, Grandma's father, passed away.

This house had two kitchens--a summer and winter kitchen.

Grandma, her mother and her sister Hezena Arnim Rowley, Aunt Zena

Grandma was so excited when we visited Orange on Mother's Day.

This was her cat, Pinky.

Coco waiting in the car at Fairhaven.

Chlo Langendorf is spending quality time with Grandma and Pinky right now.



The Yellow Rose of Texas








Remembering the yellow bird of Texas today


Just a little update to remember the day of her passing:

She did everything for me and she was so happy about it.

She arranged a whole trip just for me to go to Disneyland.

On a recent visit to Schulenburg for the Arnim, Baumgarten, Sengelmann Family reunion I came across this picture in the Schulenburg Museum:







This is a picture of the livery stable owned by her father:  The F C Arnim Livery Stable.




Here is a picture of "Pomp."

That was the nickname of her father, Feodor Charles Arnim.

She called him Papa.





Here they are at their house in Orange, California on Glassell......

Zena, Bessie, Billy, FC and their mother, Helen Laidley Arnim.



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FC, Bessie and Zena out in front of their new house in Orange, with very small palm trees.


Just found this picture:

I love you, Grandma, Happy Birthday and THANK YOU for everything!