Floral Tributes (Continued From Paige 34) even though the family must be there part of the day. Wengers have 13 greenhouses. In February of 1972 an extensive fire starting from a short circuit destroyed about half of their greenhouses but everything is rebuilt and back in operation. The community turned' out' to help and in a week’s time they were back in business. Millie says “We are ever indebted to the community. It was a tremendous experience.” Her son said, “If it did nothing else it Highest rates allowed by law Those big rates are just the beginning. For example, with our 5% regular passbook savings, if you invest by the 10th of any month, earnings are paid from the first of that month—and right up to the day you withdraw. That’s been a State Capital Savings extra for years. And with the high earning Savings Certificates—s‘/«% on 6-month. 5 3 A% on 1-year, and 6% on 2-year certificates—earnings are paid from the day-m to the day-out if held to maturity. All earnings are paid or compounded semi-annually for even greater growth. So make the most of your money. Save it today the State Capital Savings way. restored faith in fellowmen,” Each one of the family, having grown up in the flower business, has acquired the gift of making individual personalized arrangements. Millie expresses it this way, “It sort of becomes a part of you, in every arrangement. Flowers express many things for many people. You feel as though you’re a mediator between the person that’s sending it and the person receiving it.” ' Besides making sales at their place of business and making deliveries they belong to two Our Camp Hill Shopping Center and Harrisburg East Mali offices are open evenings to 8:30, Saturdays to 4 p.m. STATE CAPITAL Cavings aSajk AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 101 N. Second Street, Harrisburg 17105 Camp Hill Shopping Center • Harrisburg East Mall Tjl|aMjs4r An 4 Other Pcnntjrlveni* Cities Ant Tswns Mtmbtr Ftdtrtl Home Loan Btnk Sysltm Insured up (o $20,000 by Federal Savings and Lo»n Insurtnct Corporttion telegraph organizations so they perform a complete service to their customers. Wengers sell mostly cut flowers. They also sell a few artificial flowers. They use mostly plants and artificial flowers for their display room Their greenhouses are used largely to grow most of their cut flowers. They raise mums, pom poms, carnations, iris, daffodils, tulips, freshias, snap dragons, daisies and geraniums for cut ting. They raise the majority of their geraniums, cinerarias and Easter lilies. Tliey also grow potted tulips, hyacinths and daffodils. They finish some blooming plants in their greenhouses. They buy other plants from growers. Their green plants used for planters come from Florida. They import roses and orchids from specialists. They also import foliage, some from Florida and some from Oregon. They buy all the dried flowers they use. Wengers’ sales, as most florists are for weddings, funerals, hospital work, banquets, an niversaries, birthdays, holidays, appreciation and thank-yous. Millie, Betty and Mary Rupp are the main designers but some others help make parts of the arrangements. They also are the main decorators' of them display window and display rooms although some others help oc casionally. Carl Bomberger and Rev. Paul Wenger were given a citation March 15 for cooperation and helping with Brownstown Vo- Tech floriculture program at the FFA banquet. Wengers sell flowers to the teacher and help her with designing and greenhouse work. They also hire students from the school to give them experience. The Wenger family is very active in their respective chur ches. Rev, Paul Wenger is assistant to the nastor of their Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 14,1973 church, the Conestoga Church of the Brethren, Bareville, and helps when the pastor is away. He presides at weddings and funerals also. Mrs. Miriam Wenger has taught the three year old children in Sunday School ever since she was married. She also directed the choir. Betty and Allan Bewley are members of the same church. Betty helps with the youth department. Millie and Carl Bomberger are members of the Lancaster Church of the Brethren where she teaches the second grade children Sunday School class. Debbie Kolb not only works with flowers at Wengers but expects to have a lot of flowers on her lawn. She has started pansies and daisies in dozen size foam egg cartons on her window sills and will bqy some plants. She seems to have a green thumb and has been very successful growing house plants. She says “My garden will be my hobby this year. I will freeze vegetables and will can some.” Debbie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Bob) Trout of Bird-in-Hand, graduated from Conestoga Valley High School, then went to the Maryland Medical Secretarial School at Hagerstown, Md. She worked as a medical secretary for an or thopedic surgeon in Lancaster before marriage. She said, “It was really rewarding and in teresting.” Debbie’s father is president of “Mr. and Mrs. E. Roy Trout and Sons” egg plant which is on the farm he grew up on and his mother, Mrs. Roy Trout, still lives there. They buy all sizes of white and dark eggs from regular farmer producers. They process the eggs and sell them to a lot of local stores, storey in Philadelphia and at the store they own in Philadelphia. They also sell dairy products at their Philadelphia store. Mrs. Robert Trout and two of Bob’s sisters work there and they hire about ten people. As a girl Debbie washed eggs, put broken eggs through a sifter that were frozen for bakeries, worked on candlers and helped pack the eggs. Now they have automatic egg packers which put the eees in 15 or 30 dozen crates as well as one dozen containers. Debbie married Dennis Kolb and they live in East Lampeter Township adjoining the-60 acre farm where he grew up. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Kolb and is part of their corporation “Melvin Kolb, Inc.”, nicknamed the M K Ranch. Besides the home farm which has 50 cow stalls they rent a farm near Strasburg to pasture their cattle. They own a large dairy farm at Woodsboro, Md., near Frederick, which has stalls for 100 milking cows. They do not grow anything. They ship cows and sell them. They hold all their sales at this Maryland farm and hold one a month. Dennis gets up at 5:30 a.m. and milks cows and cleans the stable and milk equipment. In the af ternoons he goes around selling cows. Kolbs also rent the Esbenshade farm nearby where they keep mules. They buy a couple loads of mules every spring and sell them. They own four trucks and hire some trucks. Dennis grew up in the Conestoga U. B. Church but now attends Bird-in-Hand United Methodist Church where Debbie is a member. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Holstein Association. Debbie is an honary member of Job's Daughters, Bethel 4 Chapter in Lancaster. She belonged five or six years and held several offices in it. Debbie’s grandmother taught her to sew She sews quite a bit but used to do more than now. She likes to go to public sales and fix up the things she buys.' In high school she was a majorette and twirled a baton. She now helps her sister with baton routines. 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