14—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. February 8, 1960
FARM
IS WIFE
©® AND
IWi FAMILY
Mrs. Boyce Has Lived On Home
Quarryville Farm All Her Life
By Mrs. Charles McSparran
Lancaster Fanning Staff Writer
Mis Melvin C Boyce (Maiy)
hung at Collins, two miles south
of Quart yville on route 472, on
the 75 acre farm where she was
horn and raised, never lived
anywhere else and only had to
c oss the road to attend Har
mony school, later went to
Quarryville High School She
was an only child of Mr & Mis
Abram Stively who also ran a
general merchandise store at
tms same location Laughingly,
she says “I almost missed being
horn” as her mother was 44 and
her father 56 when she aruved
Maybe this accounts for her love
of family and friends and for
her varied activities in the num
e”ous community organizations
of which she is not just a nom
inal member but a very active
one % Sometimes it causes com
plications when there’s two or
fhiee meetings to attend in one
day. In the summer her picnic
basket is soit of a “meals on
wheels”, getting to all the pic-
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FOR THE
nics of the organizations to
which she belongs
Mrs Boyce says chinch comes
first with her She is a member
of Wesley United Methodist
Church of the Mount Hope Cu
cuit and a member of the
Church School, having served as
pianist of both for over 50 yeai s
She also sings sopiano in the
church choir She has been a
member of the Women’s Society
over 50 years (oiingmally called
Ladies Aid Society, then Wom
an’s Society of Christian Ser
vice and this year changed to
Women’s Society of Christian
Service when the Evangelical
United Brethren and Methodist
united) She served many years
as treasurer of the society, was
secretary at one time and is
presently Secretary of Christian
Social Relations She is on the
Administrative Board of the
church, a member of Member
ship and Evangelism Commis
Why Johnny’s parents
switched their
checking account
Not just to buy Johnny that gu!-'
tar he wanted, although they do
save enough in a year to pay for
it. A $2OO minimum balance in
their checking account at the
Key Bank eliminates all service
charges, saving them about
$lB a year. Isn’t it about time
you switched to checking at the
Key Bank?
Lancaster COUNTY FARMERS national
Mrs Melvin Boyce, where she as most at home, seated at her upright piano.
L. F. Photo
sion and a member of Steward
ship and Finance Commission
She is a member of Rawlms
ville Camp Auxiliary, was secre
tary at one time. She has tented
on the campgiounds all her Me.
Of course eveiyone on the
campgrounds is now housed in
cottages Her father helped
clear the woods for the first
campmeeting. She was chair
man of the memorial flowei
MEfvKtR F.D.I.C.
committee for camp meeting at Union and serves as its news re
one time porter
Mrs Boyce has written the
She has been a member of the “f;? 11 * 5 ” column for ae Quar^-
W.CTU. for 25 years, originally a IS gifes news Z
belonged to the Octoraro Union years btle also gives news
and now belongs to Quarryville (Continued on Page 16'
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