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Joyce Gatto: Lathrops artistic living treasure
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Joyce Gatto inside the Joyce Gatto Gallery at Lathrop City Hall, with several of her paintings on the walls. - photo by ROSE ALBANO RISSO
LATHROP – Joyce Gatto has many fond memories of Vera Walquist for a number of reasons.Walquist was a cattle farmer. Gatto still remembers the Walquists’ old farm on the southwest corner of Airport Way and Lathrop Road. It’s largely a vacant lot today but the old house is still there right on the corner of the now very busy intersection.“They were cow dealers.