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Remembering Thompson lunchroom ladies and 60s school meals
Diane Penning of Rochester Minnesota shares memories of Thompson Community School Iowa lunchroom staff from the 1960s. She recalls homemade brownies with chocolate frosting, chili, cinnamon rolls, grilled cheese and tomato soup, hamburgers, gravy, sloppy joes, chicken gravy on biscuits, lettuce sandwiches and other scratch meals. She thanks Geneva Thorland Alma Thomas Evelyn Tordoff Mary Ryerson Marge Thorland Donna Lande Edna Sime Cora Lura Alice Hagenson Evonne Larson and others for feeding students daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva Thorland
Alma Thomas
Evelyn Tordoff
Mary Ryerson
Marge Thorland
Donna Lande
Edna Sime
Cora Lura
Alice Hagenson
Evonne Larson
Diane