Women owners

Row #6, first half · swept as its own pass, November 2026

This pass was run separately from the general sweep, against every source class the roster used, asking the women question directly. The yield, whole: Susan Krupp — produce and stock farm, Section 9, heading the 1875 atlas patrons' entry in her own name, her settlement year given as 1853, her marriage year to Joseph L. Krupp; the atlas rarely prints a woman as a patron, and this roster follows it exactly. Jane (Cary) Tarnow — co-founder, with Martin Tarnow, of Martin's Super Markets, 1947. Nancy Tarnow Bartels — the founders' daughter, entered in the Congressional Record's 2015 memorial to her husband as his "partner and trusted confidante" in the Martin's business from 1964; entered at that strength, as partner, not inflated to a titled office the record does not give her. Margy Macri — co-owner, with Jerry Macri, of Villa Macri and Macri's Deli. Linda Rogers — co-developer, with Mike Rogers, of Juday Creek Estates and its golf course, and the course's present owner. Clara Miller and Krista Berkey — mother and daughter, founders of Vanilla Bean Creamery: "in 2018… had a vision of owning a space where people could form connections," first shop Elkhart 2019, then Granger and Shipshewana. Jamie — co-keeper, with Jesse, of JC's Coal Oven Pizza Co. from October 2023, at the strength the review record names her (fiancée, no surname given). Shanda — co-keeper, with Bob, of Iggy's Pizza Shop, at the same strength. Roseann Marchetti of Edwardsburg — "one of the founders of the Granger Garden Club" on her official county biography; a civic founding, entered as such, not as a business. The directory check inside the pass: Polk's Granger village listings of 1880–81 and 1884–85 name no woman trader; the 1875 patrons' directory names exactly one woman, Susan Krupp, above. The county directories at the St. Joseph County Public Library — the class that would test the twentieth-century decades for women shopkeepers of the village and the corridor's first nodes — are held on microfilm and through a subscription database this history could not open under its open-sources rule; that residue is a named gap, settler: the SJCPL county-directory run (Hibbard 1899–1912 and successors, per the Indiana State Library's St. Joseph County directory bibliography) read for Clay and Harris addresses.