Remembering Barbara McClanahan

Thursday, March 19, 2020 ~ Updated 10:20 PM

I was so blessed to have a wonderful mother-in-law for the past 30 years, and our entire family will miss her very much. Barbara McClanahan was classy and enjoyed pretty dishes and setting a beautiful table at every family dinner. I think she has six or seven sets of dishes that she rotated by season or "just because." She never used paper napkins, always cloth, and I would think of this when they dined at our house and I had paper napkins at the table.

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