It all started at the mall. Earle MacLeod, 86, of Quincy met up there with his friends, John Martino, 88, of Braintree and Nick Varraso, 84, of Quincy. Nick is a quiet guy with a streak of chivalry. He noticed a group of women having coffee in the food court every Monday and would pull out their chairs for them as they sat down. “Those other guys forgot how to handle women, and I had to show them,” he joked. Soon they all were mall buddies.
“There is always a lot of teasing, and we give each other the business,” MacLeod said.
Retired from the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, he always looks for people’s stories and learned that the women had worked together at Sears for years. He also noticed that, “even back then, Eva was cooking for the ladies, bringing them homemade muffins to have with their coffee. Soon it went well beyond that.”
“They all get hot muffins,” says Eva DiBona, 86, of Braintree. ‘‘Very fresh muffins. If they got a wife, they get an extra one to take home. Yes, I don’t want the wives to think I want to take their husband!”
The rest of this article by Sue Scheible for The Patriot Ledger is a fantastic tribute to my amazing grandmother. Of course, now that her secret is out we will probably never get another cheesecake because she’ll be too busy doing Oprah and The View.
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