A3B-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May IS, 1999
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
The largest livestock broker
here at the Lancaster Stockyards is
closing its doors Monday for good.
Walter M. Dunlap and Sons Inc.
will close its business after 101
years of operation, according to
Connie Dunlap Santarelli, the
company’s president, long-time
Lancaster Stockyard board mem
ber, and granddaughter of the
founder.
The announcement came
week.
Santarelli, contacted
by phone Thursday,
decided to close the bus
iness because of person
al health reasons and a
long commute from her
home in Alexandria, Va.
As to running the bus
iness, “I really loved it,”
she told Lancaster
Farming. She said she
became vety interested
in running the company
after her father, James
C. Dunlap (son of the
founder, Walter M.),
passed away in 1992.
She has increased her
knowledge since of the
industry and ran the
company successfully.
Santarelli said she is
thankful for the wonder
ful personnel IS in
all, including the part
time employees who
have helped run a suc
cessful business.
Santarelli, who main
tains an apartment in
Lancaster, makes her
full-time home in Virgi
nia, where she has lived
there since she was mar
ried, she said. But
because of rheumatoid
arthritis, a progressive,
autoimmune, debilitat
ing disease, and because
of the 125-mile com
mute each way (includ
ing two beltways where
the traffic is horrible,
she noted), it became
time to shut down the
business.
“I’ve always been a
veiy, veiy high energy
person,” she said. She
has put up with the
heavy construction
under way on Rt. 30, the
main road to the stock
yards north of Lancaster
City, and the turmoil it
has caused mi truckers
and buyers at the site.
“But that's not going
to last forever,” she said,
hoping the construction,
which has wreaked
havoc on lots of com
muters, will be over
soon.
While the broker is
leaving, the stockyards
will continue.
The property, on a
tract of Utitz Pike and
Marshall Avenue, is not
on the market and hasn’t
been sold, Sanlarelli
said. Two other brokers,
McCoy Cattle Company
and Louis Lyon and
Son, still operate at the
stockyards.
Dunlap Closes
Walter M. Dunlap was 17 in
1898 when he started the com
pany. He began selling livestock at
the old Lancaster Union Stock
yards, which opened three years
earlier to replace the overcrowded
Stewart stockyards at North Plum
Street and New Holland Avenue.
By 1916, at age 34, Dunlap was the
largest cattle dealer at the
stockyards.
As a member of the stockyards
board since 1983, Santarelli will
continue her association. One of
11 on the board, and one of seven
companies that worked at the yards
through the years, Santarelli noted
the property is not on the market
and hasn’t been sold, though they
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But she said that at some point,
the property will be sold.
“It’s inevitable,” she said.
The board, of course, will have
to decide on the right person and it
would have to be a “quality pro
ject" for the 21-acre property. She
will continue to serve on the stock
yard board as president.
Monday's big livestock sale and
the sheep and goats sale will mark
the last business day for the broker.
Santarelli, who grew up in Lancas
ter County, is a Lancaster Country
Day School graduate. She has been
married for 32 years and said that
in her retirement, she plans to
spend more time with her family.
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