For 47 years, Floyd’s Dairy Bar fed hungry families for not much more than pocket...
SAN ANTONIO — One night about 20 years ago, gunfire from a nearby drive-by shooting sent Leroy Tondre and his daughter Ruth ducking to the floor of Floyd’s Dairy Bar,After pulling themselves up and confirming that no one was injured, Tondre went right back to preparing the five-burger special that attracted hungry customers from all over that quarter of the city.Tondre closed the restaurant in 2017 when the pressure of running it got to be too much.
He tried to sell the business but couldn’t find a buyer. Today, the well-worn, cinder-block building that used to house Floyd’s is now aBut Tondre did enjoy his retirement, according to his youngest daughter Amanda. He raised chickens on his five-acre lot in Lytle, tended his roses and enjoyed Chinese food every chance he got.A bout of COVID-19, followed by a broken hip in August 2021 sent him on a downward spiral from which he never recovered.
Leroy Tondre, owner of the much-loved South Side institution Floyd’s Dairy Bar, died Oct. 1, 2022. He was 86.Tondre was born in Rio Medina and graduated from Southwest High School, where he met his future wife Margaret Ann App. The couple had six children. A homemaker, Margaret Tondre passed away in 2007, just a few days before the couple’s 46th wedding anniversary.
His daughters say that after he retired, Tondre would often talk about Floyd’s, the central constant of his life since he bought it from the original owner, Floyd Bell, in 1970.
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