Ames mainstay Mary Kay's flower shop building is torn down after COVID-19 slows business
Ames Tribune A flower shop stood for 66 years at the corner of North Grand Avenue and Northwood Drive in Ames until Dec. 10, when Mary Kay’s Flowers and Gifts was torn down after being closed permanently in mid-August. The COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on the business that had been owned by Mary Kay and Alan Abbott since 1974. When the youngest of her four children started to school, Mary Kay went to work three days a week for Edith Van Voorhis, who owned the shop with her husband, Stanley. “I started working there in 1967 and worked part-time until we bought the business in 1974,” M...
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