Dairy wife Dorothy Moyer’s collection
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
LEBANON - While the
dairy cow will always be the
most important animal on
Albert and Dorothy Moyer’s
Femhost Farm, cats are
there in abundance and hold
a pretty special place in
Dorothy’s heart. They may
not provide the income, but
they provide a lot of en
joyment and are certainly
conversation starters. There
are the usual number of barn
cats, and one very well
behaved house cat, but the
Yvonne King
plans to attend college but is
undecided about specific
fields in study.
fc Diane, though an Ephrata
High School Senior, lives m
Chester County where she is
herdsman for Robert
Campbell, an Ayrshire
dairyman. Diane owns three
Ayrshires and has been an
FFA member participating
on the dairy judging team.
Her plans are to continue as
Campbell’s herdsman after
graduation from High Shool.
Lisa is a Junior in the
academic course at Oc
torara High School where
she is a member of the
National Honor Society and
on the yearbook staff. She
has been involved in 4-H for
six years. Her father and
brothers milk three hundred
Holstems at their Glenville
Road farm near Cochran
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largest number of cats are
not of the living, breathing
variety.
Collecting cats began for
Dorothy, 1915 North Seventh
Street, Lebanon, when she
was four years old and an
aunt gave her the first
figurme, which she still has.
“I’ve always loved cats and
people who know me always
gave me cats as gifts. If I
saw a nice cat I bought it,”
she states as way of ex
planation for her extensive
collection.
Several years ago she
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ville. Lisa plans to attend
college but she has made no
definite career or studies
selection yet.
Judges for the contest
were former Lancaster
County Dairy Princess
Donna Akers, retired dairy
farmer and very active
Grange member Charles
MeSparran and staff writer
for LANCASTER FARMING
Susan Kauffman.
Past Chester County Dairy
Princesses also honored at
the pageant were Bernice
Prange Springer,
Cochranville, 1962; Susan
Blevins Kauffman, Peach
Bottom, 1964; Deborah
Hicks, West Chester, 1968;
Sandra Evans, Chester
Springs, 1975; Susan People,
Oxford, 1977 and out-gcing
Princess Nadine Prange,
Cochranville, 1979.
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Dorothy Moyer poses by the cabinet which
contains most of her feline figurine collection. She
has been collecting for years and happily adds to
her collection when she takes trips.
counted her figurines and
came up with 650, which
range in size from life-sized
on-the-floor models to
several that are no larger
than a thumbnail.
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But her cat interest
doesn’t stop with figurines.
The walls of the Moyers’
farm home are adorned with
cats; there are cat pillows;
pillows m latchhook and
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is the cat’s meow
needlepoint cats.
There is also an extensive
collection of jewelry done in
the cat motif, including pins,
earrings, stick pins and
necklaces. Dorothy has
return address labels with
cats and she keeps her let
ters and pencils in holders
decorated with cats.
Calendars, clocks,
bookends, salt and pepper
shakers, toothpick holders
and stuffed kittens also
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Chocolate chiffon cake is one of Dorothy Moyer’s
special desserts, and anyone who has tasted it
knows 'low delicious it is. She slices a piece for her
family.
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abound. In the kitchen one is
greeted with foam rubber
cats decorating the
refrigerator and there is a
lovely mirror framed with
the outline of a cat. She also
has a large collection of
“cat” figures which con
tamed Avon products.
The cats represent about
seven different states and
are made from almost every
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