# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHWZighhg7f
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27490628-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-18T18:00:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

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“At 94, Marie Hainline worked lunch at the Bonaparte Retreat on Tuesdays and Thursdays, where she’d serve just as many jokes as she did big-as-your-face tenderloins.

“I met Hainline, the unofficial Oldest Waitress in Iowa, during a weekday rush back in 2018. And over endless cups of coffee ― the Retreat is a country diner after all ― learned about this little, little woman’s big, big life."

“Hainline was just getting started ― right up until the end. She died Feb. 1 at age 101, the owners of the Retreat told me in a Facebook message.”

Iowa Columnist courtneycarecrowder tells the story of when she met Marie Hainline, Iowa’s “Oldest Waitress,” in 2018.

Tap the link in our bio to read her full story.

#Bonaparte #Iowa

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