Sybaritic Sophistication

Mrs. Bertha “Tiny” (Linsenmeyer) Lutfy of Phoenix, Arizona, was the youngest of eight. Her family owned a number of properties around downtown Phoenix, including the sites of the town’s first Kmart and Circle K stores, and owned a couple of markets that bore her maiden name. Tiny may have lived up (or down) to her nickname physically, but by all reports she was a formidable woman of many talents: She was a world-class champion trap and skeet shooter, from the days when pigeons were not made of clay, and traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Europe on the competition-marksmanship circuit. Later, she would pursue oil painting with the same vigor. During the late 1950s, in the days when Mercedes was still flirting with Studebaker, she bought a new Mercedes 220 S coupe (“Star Gazing,” #194) — a car she would happily drive for nearly the next