The Lunch Lady says goodbye

in 1977, a young 20-year-old hitchhiker found herself in Lincoln without any money. Soon Diane Krier had fallen in love with the town, and for the next 15 years worked at different local businesses to stay here.

“The only place I think I didn’t work at was the Jerky Plant,” she said. “I wanted to live here. I wanted to be here. I was motivated in that direction to live here.”

In 1992, Diane got th...