Today we travel from Des Moines, Iowa state capital, to 1.5 hour distant tiny Lamoni, directly south on the Missouri border, where Thelma lives in her retirement community’s assisted living center. This, on the occasion of Thelma’s 89th birthday — July 17.
We also meet Roy, Thelma’s irrepressible and highly musical 96-year-old paramour. And we visit Graceland University in Lamoni, where Lawrence spent a couple of educational years.
