24—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 3, 1973
:•![
a
Mrs. Evelyn Hess . . *
School Bus Driver, Community Leader, Housewife
Mrs J Robert (Evelyn) Hess,
Banker Hill Road, Strasburg
Township, is an active com
munity leader, a school bus
driver, a farmer’s wife and busy
homemaker
Hesses live on “Moo-Haven
Farm”, near the Strasburg
Township Building They have a
registered Holstein dairy herd of
38 cows and 40 heifers which they
have developed from heifers they
kept when they had a dispersal
sale of their fine dairy herd m
1967 They bought this 52 acre
farm in 1962 from Robert’s
father, Elvin, who had purchased
it in 1952 They also own some
other ground on Hartman’s
Bridge Road and rent some so
they have 122 acres they farm
They grow corn, hay and some
wheat
For the past six years J Robert
has been a partner in the
Kingsway Realty Company of 49
E King Street, Lancaster,
having passed his salesman test
five years ago and his broker’s
test a year ago He really enjoys
selling real estate and meeting
people However, he oversees the
farm operation and helps on the
farm as well Richard Becker,
who lives in Strasburg is their full
time employee and the whole
Hess family is a part of the
operation
Mrs Hess, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs J Clayton Sangrey,
Warwick Township, was born in
Manheim Township but grew up
on a general farm near Lititz
which her parents bought when
she was nine years old. They had
a dairy, raised steers and grew
tobacco The Sangreys, having
three daughters but no sons, had
a hired man who helped with the
dairy and steers but Evelyn
helped with the tobacco. Her
farm background was helpful to
her after she was married. For 15
years she helped milk mornings
and evenings, worked with their
laying hens, helped plant
Mrs. Hess drives this school bus to transport Lampeter-
Strasburg High School and Strasburg Elementary students.
Farm
Feature
Writer
Mrs. Charles
McSparran
tobacco, plowed, moved and
raked hay and did many other
farm chores They now have a
garden and grow green beans,
lima beans and corn which
Evelyn freezes
She graduated from Warwick
High School While she was a
senior in high school she took a
job as secretary and chair side
assistant to a dentist in Lititz and
worked there for two years
Evelyn keeps all the farm
books and records for their
houses and apartments in Lan
caster and Strasburg and gets
them ready for the accountant to
figure income tax
Mrs Hess has been driving a
Lampeter-Strasburg school bus
for Harold and Lester Warfel for
six years She hauls high school
students to school and on the way
back brings children to the
Strasburg Elementary School. It
takes about three hours a day.
Her husband drove a bus before
he sold real estate.
Evelyn was appointed to the
Farm & Home Foundation Board
two years ago to fill an unexpired
term and was elected to the board
last year for a three year term.
She was elected secretary of the
board last year The board meets
the second Tuesday of each
month There are 21 directors on
the board and 5 advisors. It is a
well rounded board representing
education, industry and farmers
from rural and suburban areas.
The advisors are Senator
Richard Snyder, Mayor
Mrs. J. Robert Hess, Strasburg R.D.I, are u sed at their meetings. Her daughter
looks over her Farm Women Society books Debbie's picture as reigning Lampeter Fair
and program booklet. The Farm Women Queen is also in the background,
and the American flags in the background
Monaghan, William Snavely,
M.M Smith and Pharos Risser.
Melvin Stoltzfus is president.
They gave ten scholarships this
year to students in agricultural
related or home economics fields.
They held three educational
meetings apd sponsored an an
tique show and a slave auction to
make money. The Farm and
Home Center at 1383 Arcadia
Road is a very versatile building
and meets a great need in the
county.
Mrs. Hess is serving her second
year as president of Farm
Women Society 28. She was a
charter member of this society
which organized five years ago.
They have 30 members and meet
in their homes once a month in
the evenings. Their members are
mostly young women. Mrs. Hess
attended the State Farm
Women’s convention in January
and took part in the safety en
tertainment put on by Lancaster
County.
Their Society gave $5O to
LARC, the Farm Women county
project, and also gave donations
to the American Cancer Society
and the Heart Association. They
had a party for the children at
Christ’s Home, gave them gifts
and the children put on a
program for the society. They
entertained 27 patients in the
psychiatric ward of the General
Hospital, Lancaster. They will
pack food baskets for needy
families at Thanksgiving time.
They plan events to include their
husbands such as a Christmas
banquet. Last year they had Mrs.
James Herr of the Herr’s Potato
Chip firm as a speaker for their
banquet. They had a white
elephant sale and a sub sale this
year to make money. They will
have a food stand at a farm sale
soon and 75 percent of that profit
will go to a worthy charity.
Some programs they have
planned for their meetings this
year are a demonstration on
yeast baking and another one on
making an arrangement in a
frame, a program on self im
provement put on by Elaine’s
School Of Charm, a lawyer to
speak on wills and they will play
miniature golf next summer.
Evelyn is a Republican
Committee Woman for Strasburg
Township. It is her duty to get the
voters out to the polls, check on
new people moving into the
township and to get 18 year old
residents to register. The com
mitteemen and com
mitteewomen of the Lampeter
and Strasburg Townships and
Strasburg Borough meet together
and she is their secretary.
Mrs. Hess has been a 4-H
Leader for ten years. She started
the Lampeter-Strasburg
Merrimaids 4-H Cooking Club
and four years later started their
sewing club. They now have 50
girls in the combined clubs. She is
their organizational leader and
keeps the books. They have five
other leaders. The girls have an
orgainzational meeting in May
then have from six to eight work
meetings in the summer. They
have a fashion show and a tea for
their mothers in the fall and the
girls model the garments they
make. Mrs. Hess helps with the
cooking club.
Evelyn is on the school
Teacher-Parent Council. Two
parents from each class are on
the council. They meet three
times a year to discuss problems.
Mrs. Hess served as a director
of the Lancaster County Ex
tension Association several years
and served as secretary for
awhile.
Hesses are members of Neff
sville Mennonite Church where
Mrs. Hess teaches a Sunday
School class sometimes and
taught at the Daily Vacation
Bible School. Robert just finished
serving as head usher for the past
four years.
J. Robert, better known as Bob,
is a director of the Lehigh Valley
(Continued on Page 27)