She was born on Aug. 9, 1939 to John Edward Alexander Kelly and Myrtle Brown Kelly in Port Chester, N.Y. Armistead's teaching career began in 1967 at Roosevelt School in Stamford, where she was a typing teacher.

who runs a flower shop about a mile from Pensacola Beach, Fla., where tarballs from the spill washed up. She said her business was down about $4,000 this year in July from the year before. "But it is hard to prove ...