James Delahanty wrote:

Clara Thompson is reported to have died on
August 31st peacefully in her sleep; she was fifty. She established and
maintained helpmefind.com, an essential resource to amateur rosarians.

One of the neatest things about Clara is that she was an Italophile and
classical studies nut during an era when the study of "dead white guys"
has become ultra passe. She recognized beauty where she found it--regardless
of fashions in roses or thought--and celebrated it. She was not the type who
would grow only OGRs because they were "the thing to grow" at the moment.
She had a circumspect quality that underlay her "bubbly" facade and spoke
volumes about her natural intelligence. She could be disarmingly indirect. I
am shocked and saddened that she is gone so young.