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Photo courtesy of the Hastings Tribune
Antonette Willa Skupa Turner - Toni, to her friends - poses with young Willa Cather enthusiast MaKenna Karr. Turner is the granddaughter of Anna Pavelka, the real-life inspiration for Cather's most famous character in "My Antonia". She died at age 101 in August after spending the second half of her life speaking about her grandmother, her grandma's lifelong friend Willa Cather and the real-life world that Cather mined for her most famous novels.
