82-Lanc«ster Farming, Saturday, October 23, 1993
Lebanon Farm Women Do Whatever They Can,
Wherever They Can, Whenever They Can
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
LEBANON (Lebanon Co.)
Business, music, food, and gossip
filled'the agenda for the S3rd annu
al convention of Lebanon County
Society of Farm Women.
About 160 members from 21
county societies attended the day
long event held at Kenbrook Bible
Camp on October 13. A report on
their yearly activities showed that
Farm Women, according to presi
dent Fcm Hitz, “wish to do all they
can, wherever we can, and
whenever we can.”
Farm Women expressed their
concern for the needy by donating
SI,OOO to Mid Western flood vic
tims and another $l,OOO for the
heifer project, a food producing
animal given to a family in need
who then passes on the first female
offspring to another family in
need.
Election of new county officers
filed the foil '• Lor
iment.
More than 160 members attend the 53th annual convention of the Lebanon County
Society of Farm Women.
Arlene Witman, Pennsylvania Farm Women president, hugs newly elected Lebanon
County officers, from left: Lois Bohn, president; Haney Bennet, Ist vice president;
Eileen Keller, 2nd vice president; Susan Hawley, secretary; and Rosene Bollinger,
treasurer.
Bohn, president; Nancy Bcnnet,
Ist vice president; Eileen Keller,
2nd vice president; Susan Hawley,
secretary; and Roscne Bollinger,
treasurer.
Members who are in their eight
ies and nineties were honored by
receiving a special Farm Women
emblem pin. Ninety-year-old
members included Hilda Balmer,
Society 1; Sadie Knapp, Society,
2; and Mary Light, Society 1.
Eighty-year-old members hon
ored were Edna Kelly, Society 3;
Alctha Neidigh, Society 3; Miriam
Roush, Society 6; Edith Wike,
Society 8; Florence Reed, Society
10; and Mary Arnold, Society 12.
Members held a special memor
ial service for members who had
passed away during the past year.
These included Minnie Hunsicker,
Society 2; Ida Moyer, Society 6;
Florence Kaylor, Society 5;
Blanche Wenger, Society 5; and
Violet Alger, Society 3. Helen
Dca - 89-' Id
“I Found the Answer."
Educational and entertainment
prevailed in the afternoon session
by talks by Martha Gregory, 4-H
director; Jennifer Bashore, Leba
non County Dairy Princess; a Red
Cross worker, and by Grace Miller
alias Tillie Hiemerschnitch.
Tillie kept the audience in
stitches by her tales of life in cul
turally deprived Yummerdall. As a
lady in waiting, she said that still
waiting as she she is too young for
medicare and too old for men to
care. In her speech, Tillie included
snippets of gossip about many of
the Farm Women members. The
character Tillie is impersonated by
Grace Miller of Landis Valley, a
former school teacher, librarian,
and bus tour guide.
State president Arlene Witman
encouraged members to continue
their many good deeds by remind
ing them, “It’s nice to be impor
tant, but it’s more important to be
nice.”
Elght-nlne-year-old Helen
Deaver sang “I Found the
Answer” during the memor
ial service.
Pennsylvania Farm Women president Arlene Witman,
left, congratulates Sadie Knapp, 90-year-old member of
Society 2.
10.
Outgoing president of the Lebanon County Farm Women
Fern Hltz, left, pins Lois Bohn as the newly-elected
president.
Lebanon County Farm Women president Fem Hits hands
a $l,OOO check to a Red Cross worker. The money will be
used for flood victims in the midwest.