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Birth
1929 (Nashville, Tennessee)
Death
2011 (Marshalltown, Iowa)
Lived/Active
Iowa
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Butter sculpture-religious figure, animals, portraits
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Following is the obituary of the artist, by Paul Vitello, The New York Times, June 27 2011
Norma Lyon, the 'Butter-Cow Lady', Dies at 81
Norma Lyon, a self-described dairy farmer’s wife and mother of nine who achieved fame well beyond the Midwest as the “butter-cow lady” of the Iowa State Fair, sculpturing tons of U.S. Grade AA salted butter each year into life-size figures of cows, famous people and, once, a diorama of the Last Supper, died on Sunday in Marshalltown, Iowa. (showing 500 of 4256 characters). |
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