| February 11, 2022 -- For meeting dates, please call the Master or the Secretary.
Harmony Grange was saddened again in January. James (Jimmy) Clark from Monroe, a longtime truck driver for the former Stevenson Lumber Co., a resident of Monroe and a loyal and active member of Harmony Grange passed away. Harmony Grange has lost two excellent members within a period of two months.
Harmony Grange members are suffering the effects of the dark nights, cold weather, and staying safe from getting the Omicron strain of COVID for meetings. Let us hope that conditions will get better in the coming months as we welcome Spring. Spring cannot be too far away as seed catalogs are appearing in our mailboxes.
We also mourn the loss of Gertrude Wilson, a 75-year member of our Grange who celebrated her 101st birthday in November. This milestone was celebrated by a special article in the local Patch online news by Bill Bittar:
Gertrude Wilson joined Housatonic Grange that her parents were involved in when she was 16 years old growing up in Stratford. The Shelton resident is now the most senior member of Harmony Grange in Monroe.
“My Brother and Sister were members also,” Wilson said Saturday, when she attended Harmony Grange’s annual Agriculture Fair and Bake Sale. “I think it’s a family organization where everybody works together to do community work with an agricultural background,” Wilson said. “Years ago, practically everybody was a farmer, but now it’s changed. But we still need farms to eat. Years ago, she had married Robert Wilson, a farmer in Shelton, and joined the Far Mill River Grange in Huntington and that Grange later merged with Harmony Grange. |
