Their maternal grandparents, Arthur and Flora Lamkins, both of whom are buried there, dually ran Winnipeg’s post office and general store in the 1940s and ’50s, back when Winnipeg was a thriving, albeit tiny, community.įurthermore, their mother Wanda Weaver (nee Lamkins) was born and raised in Winnipeg, Mo., as was her sister Goldia and four brothers Clyde, Victor, Vernon and Dennis.
That is, unless you count the three dozen or so souls occupying the perfectly manicured cemetery adjacent to the Winnipeg Christian Church, where, as scheduled, we are joined by sisters Renee Taylor and Stephanie Stiller.įor as long as each can remember, Taylor and Stiller, who live in Springfield, Mo., and Jefferson City, Mo., respectively, have hooked up at the church and cemetery ahead of the American Memorial Day long weekend to tend to some of their ancestors’ gravesites. counterpart boasts a population of precisely zero.
Situated in picturesque Laclede County, approximately 100 kilometres southeast of Lake of the Ozarks, where the popular Netflix series Ozark is set, our U.S. No worries if those locales don’t ring a bell the thing is, Toto, we weren’t in Manitoba, anymore, but rather, southern Missouri, home of the only other Winnipeg on the planet. Genevieve to the east, passing through places such as Bolivar, Lebanon and Farmington along the way. Instead, the only clue to indicate we’d reached our destination after close to 18 hours behind the wheel was a street sign spelling out “Winnipeg Drive.” Thankfully, we’d been told to keep watch for the green-and-white marker, which sits atop a stop sign where said drive meets Route 32, a two-lane highway that stretches 459 kilometres from El Dorado Springs to the west, to Ste. Heck, there isn’t even a playful poke à la an old episode of The Simpsons, when Bart and the gang are greeted by a panel reading “Now entering Winnipeg: we were born here, what’s your excuse?”
There are no roadside billboards welcoming visitors to Winnipeg no overhead banners billing it as one great city or detailing what it’s made from. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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