—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 22, 1972
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But She Can't Forget Charitable Causes
Mrs .
Mrs Clayton (Anna Bell)
Wiley, Cherry Hill Koad, Peach
Bottom RD2, although a busy
larmer’s wile and homemaker,
willingly gives untold hours to
bcneliccnt and charitable
organizations, as well as to her
c hurch
One ol her chief interests in the
past six years has been assisting
the Mental Health and Mental
Retardation program in Lan
caster County
Through their joungest child’s
retardation and consequent
handicap, she has become aware
ol the great need ol voluntary
smicc and ol the tremendous
benefits derived Irom the schools
now provided to help these
c hildren
Some parents are reluctant to
let their children attend these
schools, but workers in this field
find much can be done lor them
cspeualh if they start at an early
age
Wileys son Leslie, now eight
\ ears old attended the school for
ictarded children at Bethany
Presbyterian Church Lancaster,
three vears and the school at
Mechanic C.ro\e Church Of The
Brethren, QuarryviUe RD, two
vears These schools are under
the supervision of the I-ancaster
Association of Retarded
Children, a part of the Penn
svlvama Association of Retarded
Children Leslie hopes to attend
their (’amp Sertoma above
Harrisburg this summer
Mrs Wiley, as a parent
i eprcsentative Irom the
Mechanic Grove School, was
elected a member ol the
Retarded Children’s Day Care
Service Of Lancaster County
Ho.ird in June ol 1970 lor a two
vear term and is publicity
chairman of the board Other
schools under their supervision
•ire Bethany in Lancaster, Gap,
Kphrata and Elwabethtown She
served as a volunteer aide at
Bethanv lor three years
Hit mother, Mrs Giles Booth
ol Merisel, is serving as a
volunteer aside at Mechanic
(■rove School whore six children
attend She served several years
as an aide at these schools
Les is attending the school lor
ictarded children at Strasburg
Klementary School this year
Mrs Dorothy Dichm is ad
ministrative supervisor ol the
Special Class Services ol the
Lancaster —Lebanon In
termediate Unit 13 there
Fighteen children are attending
this class They have one teacher,
one teacher’s aide and one
student teacher Not as many
aides are necessary at the LARC
schools because the children
have improved and need less
supervision
Mrs Wiley attends Mothers’
Club meetings at the Mechanic
Grove School Thev recently held
a bake in Lancaster
When these LARC schools were
lirst started they were linanced
by the parents and the various
chanties they sponsored Mrs
W ilcy helped with bazaar stands
two Saturday mornings at
Southern Market, Lancaster, sold
“Flames Ol Hope” candles,
helped with a Hat-A-Rama at
1 atitz and helped with the LARC
canisters they have each
November lor Mental Health
Retardation Month
Mrs Wiley, a charter member
ol the Robert Fulton Fire
Company Auxiliary, is serving as
president lor her sixth year this
term and previously served as
president two or three years.
They organized before they had a
lire hall and met in Fulton
Township Elementary School
She was second runner-up in
the Mrs Lancaster County Fire
Chief contest in 1965
Wiley Is
This auxiliary is a hardworking
group and turn over great sums
ol money to the lire company
One ol their greatest sources ol
income is having food stands at
sales For this the lire company
bought a catering truck or “lunch
wagon” lor their use It is
equipped with gas fueled stoves
and collec pots
They also hold a rummage sale
at the firehouse once a year, have
doughnut sales two or three times
<i vear when they make 100 to 150
dozen, serve brcaklast the
opening day ol trout season,
serve banquets, wedding
receptions and suppers They
also get the money I or renting the
lirehousc basement They
equipped the kitchen in the
lirehousc and recently gave the
lire company money to paint the
basement
Mrs Wiley is vice president of
the Drumore Flower Club,
having served as their immediate
past president (or two years
They meet once a month
Anna Bell served on the
committee that planted an herb
garden at the Robert Fulton
Birthplace last summer They
have two beds of herbs in the
garden One is a formal garden of
plants they bought and the other
is a community garden of plants
the members furnished from
their own gardens. They took
seeds from some of the plants and
look slips from some to keep in
their homes this winter to replant
with next summer.
The club takes four bus trips a
vear They attend the
Philadelphia Flower and Garden
Show every March, take a spring
and a fall trip and a shopping trip
.it Christmas time Anna Bell
Mrs. Wiley holds a very unusual teapot she just bought at a
sale. It has a hole like a doughnut in the middle. Some of her
other teapots and pitcher and bowl sets are on the shelves.
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Mrs. Clayton Wiley models one of her afghan are in background. One of her other
crocheted capes and is holding a white cap capes and an afghan.she is making are in
she is making. Her prize pillow top and an foreground.
helps get passengers to go on
these trips.
Wileys are members of Mount
Zion United Methociist Church,
Fairfield, where Mrs. Wiley
serves as communion steward, is
a substitute teacher of the Sun
day School and Needlework
secretary of the Women’s Society
of Christian Service. She has
charge of getting clothes for the
March in-gathenngs and often
does a lot of sewing for them. She
served as secretary of Youth
Work in the WSCS for several
years and took the young people
to district meetings. She assists
with suppers, banquets and
various activities the women
have. She served as one of the
census takers for the church in
the recent community church
census She bowls every Friday
night in the church’s bowling
league and is one of three team
captains
Mrs. Wiley formerly served as
assistant leader for the Fulton 4-
H Sewing Club
She was a school bus driver off
and on lor eight years. She drove
some lor Harold Warfel and full
time for Worth Temple and also
drove a Bible School bus for
Lester Warfel. She gave it up
when she was an aide for Bessie’s
school
Wileys bought their 160 acre
larm 2'/> years ago and have a 60
head herd of Holsteins, 40 being
milking cows They ship their
milk to Inter-State Milk
Producers Co-Op.
Mr. Wiley has lived on this
farm all his life, having farmed
for his parents several years. He
is the son of the late Samuel and
Mrs. Mabel Wiley who now
resides in Quarryville.
Anna Bell does all the farm
bookkeeping. She used to do all
the baling before their sons were
.old enough to do it and still does
some. She also helps with
milking.
Clayton, better known to
everyone as “Pud”, is a member
of Lancaster County Farmers
Association.
He enjoys hunting and is a
member of a 27 member hunting
club that has a cabin near
Coudersport in Potter County.
He also enjoys fishing every
year m Canada.
He coached baseball 14 years
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