HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The widower of famed herbalist Adelma Grenier Simmons is facing a final deadline to provide a full accounting of his assets or face sanctions in a dispute over his late wife’s once-acclaimed herb farm in Connecticut.
Eighty-one-year-old Edward Cook has been ordered to return to Hartford Superior Court on Tuesday after failing three previous times to disclose all assets. The Journal Inquirer reports that Judge Matthew Budzik warned Cook about possible sanctions.
A lawyer for Simmons’ estate is trying to evict Cook from the Coventry farm, which has fallen into disrepair and tax debt.
Simmons and Cook were married for about four years when she died in 1997 at age 93. She was credited with popularizing the use of herbs in American cooking and published more than 50 books and pamphlets.
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