Colette Botma and two of her sons planted five acres of sunflowers in memory of her husband, Anne, along Upland Road in Lisbon. Anne Botma died Jan. 1 at the age of 73. He did not want a funeral, Colette said. So the couple, who married in 1956, decided a field of sunflowers would be planted on the family farm instead of having a memorial service. Anne and Colette met on the Lisbon dairy farm in 1954 while Anne was a college student studying agriculture and Colette was the farm cook. Five years later, the couple bought the dairy farm, then called the Elmsdale Farm, and renamed it the Botma Farm. “He was very practical,” Dirk Botma said of his father. “He liked the looks of them (sunflowers), but they were grown for cattle feed.” Dirk and his brother Glen currently milk 80 cows on the farm, “the last dairy farm left in town.”