How a love of doughnuts and thrift stores helped save a child

From left are sisters Mary Shea, Margaret Klein, Becky Ratzlaff and Judie Beadle. Submitted photo

From left are sisters Mary Shea, Margaret Klein, Becky Ratzlaff and Judie Beadle. Submitted photo

Our entire family was in Langdon for the July 16 burial of our beloved Bob Klein. My sisters — Margaret Klein, Mary Shea and Becky Ratzlaff — and I had decided to meet at the Langdon bakery at 9 a.m. the next morning. We sisters share a love of doughnuts that began when our mother, Betty Nowatzki, delighted us with her own homemade confections.

I arrived a little early and spotted a sign that read …