Thelma and Ed Dye came to Medicine Lodge in January 1921, and opened the West
  Side Cafe on February 20. They operated this cafe until December 1924, when they 
  sold it and went to Greensburg. In April, 1925, they bought a cafe there and
  operated it until August, 1926. Selling the cafe in Greensburg, they returned ot
  Medicine Lodge in 1927, bought the West Side from Mrs. Cora Adams, and were there
  until January 30, 1930, when the cafe burned. They then opened Dye's Cafe at 103
  N. Main in May, 1930, and operated it until Ed passed away on December 13, 1942.
     Thelma ran the cafe until 1954, when she sold it to Max McCullough. She married
  Dutch Wright in 1952, and they moved to the Page lease, where they made their home
  until 1962.
     Thelma was active in civic affairs. She was a charter member of the Business and
  Professional Women's Club and was one of the Directors of the Medicine Lodge Chamber
  of Commerce.
     At the annual meeting of the Kansas Restaurant Association in 1949 she was
  elected to the Board of Directors. Whe was very much interested in her business
  and was glad to share her solutions of the restaurant problems with her fellow
  workers. After 28 continuous years in the business, she was able to solve any problem.
     In 1962 Thelma and Dutch moved to the Oak Street Court, where she still resides.
  She was an Eastern Star and became Worthy Matron, Lorraine Chapter, in 1966.
     Having been accustomed to being in public life, she decided to go back to work
  after moving to town, and spent four more years running a cafe at the State Barn
  from 1969 until 1973.
     Dutch's health began to fail, and he passed away in April, 1975.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 499