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Patricia Anne Fleming Jester

West Des Moines, Iowa

3 rd Floor Porch

Born:
March 30, 1942 in Orange, New Jersey to Alice Jane Glannan Fleming and Stuart Reid Fleming

Married:
Robert Edgar Jester on May 30, 1964 in Des Moines, Iowa

Graduated:
Iowa State University with distinction as a high scholar student on May 29, 1964 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Food and Nutrition, major in Dietetics


College Honors:
Mortar Board, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Upsilon Omicron, Omicron Nu, Gamma Gamma, Borden Scholarship for highest grade average in Food and Nutrition

College Activities:
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority;
1963 Veishea Central Committee
General Co-Chair;
1962 Veishea Central Committee
Publicity Chair;
1962 Homecoming Central Committee
Barbeque Co-Chair

Employment:
Dietitian at Iowa Methodist Hospital, Mercy
Hospital, and Wesley Acres Retirement
Home all in Des Moines;
Associate Food Editor for Better Homes and
Gardens magazine, books, Special Interest
Publications, and Meredith Publishing
Services;
Founded Creative Foods Limited on April
6, 1976 as a food and nutrition consulting
firm after which authored 5 cookbooks
including a microwave cookbook with
sales of 1.5 million copies and consulted

for Victoria Magazine, a Hearst
publication

Professional Activities:
Iowa State Foundation Governor, serving on
the Board Directors for 2 terms;
Iowa State Achievement Fund Board of
Trustees;
President Iowa Home Economics Association
1976;
Co-Founder Polk County Iowa State Alumni
Association 4/95
Narrative Updated: 4/19/1995

Honored By:Robert E. Jester


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