Women in the kitchen preparing to serve Sunday dinner.

Women in the kitchen preparing to serve Sunday dinner. Wilma Campbell's kitchen, Sac City, Iowa. Before 1945. (L-R) Linda Merkley, Hester Sams, Wilma Campbell. In 1945 Loren and Linda Merkley bought a farm homestead in Dodge County, Minnesota (about 5 miles from the village of Claremont). Over the next two years Loren convinced his girls to join them. Hester and Lawrence Sams rented a house on the outskirts of Claremont, Wilma and Robert Campbell rented a house in town and purchased a gas station, repair shop, later adding a variety store which Wilma managed. 


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