Miller family wins Reading Fair honors
BY LAUREL SCHAEFFER
Staff Correspondent
FLEETWOOD Surely
October 16th, 1980 will hold
special memories for years
to come for a certain family
of Berks County.
It was on this evening
during the Reading Fair
Banquet that Carl Miller and
family were named the 1980
Reading Fair Farm Family.
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farm consisting of ap
proximately 500 acres owned
and 1300 acres rented, and a
dairy in which 330 cows
presently are being milked.
The Millers were selected
as the outstanding farm
family by the Berks County
Pomona Grange,
To be eligible for selection
the family must be an active
member of a subordinate
grange in the county. In the
Millers case this grange is
the Virgmville Grange.
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Miller has been with the
grange his entire life, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Miller, being
charter members. He and
his wife, Marilyn, have
earned all of the degrees
with the grange as has his
daughter and her husband,
Carlene and Nelson Blatt.
Miller has been an officer of
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years.
Carlene and Nelson were
named the State Grange
Outstanding Young Couple
previously this year. Other
children of the Millers are:
Diane, wife of Bill Dietrich;
Bonnie, wife of Michael
Gehringer; Candy, wife of
Donald Walton; Tammy 11,
and Jeffrey, 23.
The Millers also have
eleven grandchildren, six
boys and five girls, in-
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incaster Farming, Saturday, October 25,1980—89
creasing the size of the
family to 23 members. Miller
remarked that the farm has
always been a family
operation since 1959 when he
started farming with his
grandfather. Miller rented a
farm at first, purchasing the
home farm m 1962, and
gradually expanding the
operation ever since.
Today the Millers have six
family employees, other
then themselves. His son,
Jeffrey manages the dairy,
three daughters also help
and do the milking and two
son-in-laws are employed
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The Miller Family,
honored at the Reading
Fair, includes from left,
in the front row: Leon
Blatt, Jeromy Gehringer,
Brandy Gehringer;
second row: Carline
Blatt, Bonnie Gehringer
holding Melanie, Carl
Miller holding Amy
Walton, Marilyn Miller,
Diane Dietrich, Candy
Walton; third row:
Nelson Blatt, Jeffrey
Miller, Mike Gehringer,
Danny Gehringer,
Tammy Miller, Brian
Blatt, Eric Blatt, Ginger
Dietrich, Mario Dietrich,
Timmy Walton, Bill
Dietrich and Donald
Walton.
mechanic where 95 percent
of the farm machinery
repairs including
overhauling is done, and
Gehringer is a field hand.
Miller is general manager
overseeing the entire family
enterprise and operates the
large machinery when
possible and Marilyn han
dles the bookkeeping. Ap
proximatley 730 acres of
com are grown, 450 acres of
alfalfa, and 200 acres of
small grains.
All of the dairy feed is
raised on the farm with the
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