Bl6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 9,1982
Meet our Master Farmer wives
Editor’s Note - This year’s Master
Farmer wives can take a bow for their
important contributions to successful
farm operations. We’d like you to
meet southeastern Pennsylvania's
‘driving-force’ behind the winners:
'Carol Henkel, Lancaster County;
Mary Ann Bare, Lebanon County, and
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Hurrying to tap out milk for customers waiting before the
doors even open, Glendora, Charlotte, and Katrina are kept
busy with the regulars who come for their favorite dairy
products.
Glendora
family’s raw
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
YORK NEW SALEM - “I
vowed I’d never marry a farmer,”
laughs Glendora Stump, wife of
York County’s newest Master
Farmer, Joseph Stump.
Born and raised in the pic
turesque mountain area of
Allegheny County, Maryland’
Glendora remembers that her
father worked in the coal mines
there “until he had to get out.”
The family relocated in Berks
County, where the former coal
miner took up the carpentry trade,
and Glendora finished out her high
school years at Hamburg High
School.
Shortly after graduation, she and
Joe were married, in a ceremony
originally planned as a lovely
outdoor June garden wedding.
“It was the only day in June that
year that it rained,” she adds
wryly.
The rain was not an ominous
portent. Today Joe and Glendora
have four children, a successful
dairy farm plus raw milk store,
and a lovely home nestled against
a'hillside just outside York New
Salem.
Following their marriage, the
Stumps left for Bayberry State
Hospital, just over the city line of
Philadelphia, where Joe was to
begin serving. alternate military
service. Glendora also took a job at
the hospital, as a relief attendant.
“That meant I worked wherever
they needed someone,” she ex
plains. “We worked out our
schedules so that we both usually
had the same days off, and then
Glendora Stump, York County. Our
congratulations also go to Mane and
Linda Countryman, wives of father
son Master Farmers Paul and David
Countryman, Somerset County,
Aimee Park, wife of Butler County’s
W. Robert Park; and Betty Herbst,
wife of John Herbst, dairyman from
Washington County, Md.
Stump runs
milk farm store
we’d come back home to help
make hay, or plant corn, or
whatever they were doing. ’ ’
“Back home” was the family
farm in York County, where Joe’s
mother, his brother John, and
younger sisters were continuing
dairying after his dad’s death
when Joe was 17.
When Joe’s stmt at Bayberry
was over, they returned home and
bought half of the farm operation.
John left for his stretch of alter
native service at the hospital also
returning whenever possible to
lend a hand with the farm chores.
As newlyweds, the Stumps had
purchased what was - then the
largest mobile home they could
find on the market. Glendora notes
that the trailer has served them
faithfully. They lived in it about 16
years, fiercely pinching pennies to
first buy their present farmland in
1960, but remaining with the herd
on the home fann until the new
land could be paid off. Then they
started from scratch to build a
super-modern free-stall, milking
parlor complex.
Finally, a few years after the
dairy was .complete, and
production was going out to eager
customers hunting fresh raw milk,
Glendora could move her famiy
into the spacious, white-bricked
ranch home, designing and
decorating the 16 rooms to suit the
lifestyle of the Stump family.
Along the way, all four children
have been involved with the dairy
operation, Sherrilynne, 23, a
former alternate county dairy
princess, is employed as an
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STRASBURG Carol and John
Henkel met because of a mutual
interest in agriculture which led
them both to study at Rutgers
University. Although John’s in
terest centered on hogs, something
he had grown up. with as his
family’s business in New Jersey,
Carol’s remained a love of horses.
Both interests have grown and
thrived at Willow Glen Farm in
southern Lancaster County where
these New Jersey natives moved in
1960.
When they first got a farm of
their own, Carol worked with the
hog operation as needed. With the
birth of three daughters, she
gravitated away from the bam and
into the home to raise the children.
She never lost her love of the
outdoors, and still says she prefers
outdoor work to indoor.
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Her interest in the hog business
grew with John’s, and for quite a
few years she was active with the
Pennsylvania Porkettes. As a vice
president, she worked closely with
the Porkettes in raising money to
be used in porcine valve heart
research.
But Carol’s real love has always
been horses, something which she
thinks may have “come down
through the blood” from her
grandfather who drove brewery
horses. She got her first horse in
1964, and when her daughters got
interested, she eventuaUy'foUowed
the natural course of things and
served as 4-H leader for the Rough
Riders for five years.
Carol also coached the 4-H
judging team for five years and the
team came within one place of
being first in the state contest as
they improved each year. Carol
admits to having little formal
training except what she learned
as a member of the livestock
judging team at Rutgers.
LEBANON Mary Ann Bare is
happy being a fanner’s wife, and is
extremely proud of the honor her
husband Hershey received in being
named a 1982 Master Fanner.
She will be on hand next Tuesday
along with their two sons, Mike, 18,
and Bobby, 13, to see Hershey
honored during Farm Show.
Mary Ann - says, “I feel like he
deserves it. He has always been a
farmer and always wanted to be a
farmer.” The Bares are at home
on a 320-acre farm on Heffelfinger
• Road north of Lebanon.
While not directly involved in the
farming enterprise, Mary Ann is
supportive of her husband’s far
ming activities and is frequently
with him as he attends conventions
and meetings in connection with
farm organizations.
Hen own life around running an
efficient household and working in
school. Mary Ann is a substitute in o
the library and office and also
substitutes as a teacher’s aide m
the elementary schools of the •
Northern Lebanon'School District.
She can usually be found at school
at lehst one day and sometimes up
to three days a week.
Mary Ann also volunteers two
afternoons a week in a resource
unit for the . learning disabled
operated by the Lahcaster-
Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13.
In addition to working during the
school year, Mary Ann serves as
librarian at two schools in the
summer, where she opens the
Carol Henkels ‘first-love’ is horses
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
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Ducking an affectionate ‘nuzzle’ from one she has on their
farm, she explains how she enjoys working with her horses
and helping people overcome their handicaps through riding.
She enjoyed working with the 4-H Mountville where she meets the 4-
team because it was a continual H’ers and the volunteers who work
learning experience for her as she with them and put them through
helped team members evaluate their specially designed program
conformation and performance. of learning to ride the horse.
All of her work with horses led Carol explains that riding the
her to work with the Lancaster horse is beneficial to physically
Pony Club, of which she had been % handicapped people because it
member, in working with a relaxes their muscles, and often a
therapeutic riding program for the marked difference can be noted in
handicapped. That program was their walking ability when they
eventually taken over by Easter dismount. But students not only
Seals who used 4-H’ers and others - 'learn to ride, they also perform a
as volunteers in working with the series of beneficial exercises as
handicapped. they sit astride the horse.
Carol is now a 4-H leader again, Carol says, “It is definitely
this time with the Silver Shoes 4-H advantageous to those who par-
Club, one organized strictly as a ticipate in it. Parents and physical
therapeutic riding program. After therapists can see the difference.”
starting with seven people, the So far they have worked
club has expanded to 14 with a total primarily with physical and
capacity of about 16-20. mental handicaps but in the Spring
Each Friday morning, except in hope to enlarge the program to
extremely cold weather, Carol can include learning disabled children
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Mary Ann Bare finds
service in substituting
Reading is Master Farmer wife Mary Ann Bare’s favorite
pasttime. She enjoys reading all kinds of books, and is
happiest when she is passing on the pleasure of reading
through her work in the local.school district.