(AP) — To honor her mother on the third anniversary of her death, Darlene Rippon wrote a heartfelt tribute, stuck the message in a bottle and cast the glass vessel toward the sea. Alas, the poignant remembrance addressed to Rippon's mom, Louise Carlson, never made it out of the state park. Yet because two Nova Southeastern University students recognized the beauty of Rippon's words, and saved the message in a bottle, her tribute is now heard. Rippon, who works at Memorial Cancer Institute in Hollywood, said her mother died June 26, 2011, in Spring Hill, north of Tampa, from complications following surgery. Julia Adams and Merilene Austria, the second-year nursing students who made the find, gave the bottle to park ranger Christopher Leon and the note was read aloud to a group of about 20 cleanup participants. In the letter she mentioned blooms on a rose bush that she had planted with her mother in Spring Hill, and a bud on a bush at Rippon's home in Dania Beach that was about to burst open.