Reply #3: If memory serves me, I think she picked a successor a couple years ago. [View All]

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edit: Here's what I was thinking about. Sarah Pratt (her granddaughter) is still doing it.



http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/articles/2006/08/11/top_stories/02butter.txt

DES MOINES -- Forgive Sarah Pratt if she feels slightly overwhelmed. Sarah, you see, is the new butter cow lady.

For the five or six people in Iowa who aren’t familiar with the butter cow, here’s a quick primer: For nearly a century, dairy producers in the state have sponsored the making of a cow out of butter at the state fair.

For 45 years, that cow and everything from a butter Elvis to a butter Last Supper, has been made by Norma “Duffy” Lyon, a sculptress and dairy farmer from Tama County.

With Duffy’s retirement, Sarah is the new butter sculptress.

“I was half expecting her (Duffy) to just keep on doing it,” Pratt says.