The Walworthians<\/p>\n
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A collection of telephone interviews published in the Wayne County STAR Newspaper and Wayne County MAIL Newspaper, 1994-209<\/p>\n
by Kate Chamberlin<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Harold F. Granger<\/strong><\/p>\n 2019 Up-Date:<\/strong><\/p>\n Harold Floyd Granger<\/strong><\/p>\n West Walworth:\u00a0 Harold passed away on January 24, 2019 at age 88.\u00a0 He was born in Walworth, NY to Floyd and Eunice Granger.\u00a0 He was also predeceased by his sister, Patricia Wahl.\u00a0 Harold is survived by his wife of 68 years, Nancy Granger; children, Alan (Nancy) Granger, Shelly (Curt) Kenyon, Laurie Finn, Melanie (Jim) Frauel and Cindy (Jeff) Casper; 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.<\/strong><\/p>\n Harold proudly served his country in the United States Navy.\u00a0 After working \u00a036 years for Eastman Kodak, Harold retired and he and his wife, Nancy worked for Camp Denali in Alaska for 8 summers.\u00a0 They enjoyed their time in Alaska and made many friends from all over the world.\u00a0 Harold enjoyed photography and being with his family.\u00a0 He was a lifelong member of West Walworth Zion Methodist Church.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n A celebration of Harold\u2019s life will be offered on Saturday (January 26), 11 AM at West Walworth Zion United Methodist Church, 3960 W. Walworth Rd., Macedon, NY 14502.\u00a0 Interment in Walworth Cemetery in the Spring.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, contribution in Harold\u2019s memory may be directed to the church.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cCornucopia\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n By Kate Chamberlin<\/em><\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 1995 Wayne County STAR Newspaper <\/em><\/p>\n Harold and Nancy Granger are two of the people in our neighborhood.\u00a0 Alaska has always intrigued Harold.\u00a0 About seven years ago when a couple from their Square Dancing Group recommended Camp Denali, they took a vacation to Alaska.\u00a0 The Wilderness Camp for Adults in Denali National Park was the high point of their trip.\u00a0 They went again the next summer for a month.\u00a0 The owners of the camp invited them to become staff members for the following summer.\u00a0 They accepted!<\/p>\n Harold did much of the carpentry work to open a second lodge for guests and continues to help keep things inhabitable.\u00a0 Nancy helps out with the laundry, serving and everything else to make a guest’s stay enjoyable.<\/p>\n The main lodge is more like a motel, but the newer lodge is made up of several cabins.\u00a0 It has a main shower room and an out-house.\u00a0 It is closer to nature.<\/p>\n “The country is just incredible,”\u00a0 Nancy said as her voice trailed off into memorable thoughts.<\/p>\n She mentioned that they’d met a bear or two on the trail.\u00a0 “They went their way and we went our way,” she said as if meeting a bear was an everyday occurrence!<\/p>\n “It’s the people,” Harold said.\u00a0 “The owners and the guests are just the greatest.”<\/p>\n Nancy Scott was born in Union Hill and brought up on her parents farm in Walworth.\u00a0 After they sold the farm.\u00a0 Her parents lived on High\u00a0 Street (just around the corner from Bill Youngman’s family) Nancy’s Aunt Pearl Scott still lives there.<\/p>\n Harold and Nancy attended Walworth Academy, in what she called “East Walworth”.<\/p>\n When I asked her where East Walworth was, she said, “Well, it’s called Walworth now, but it used to be Lincoln, West Walworth and East Walworth.”<\/p>\n We agreed that it was getting even more complicated with Blue Heron Hills and Gananda\u00a0 as part of Walworth–or are they part\u00a0 of West Walworth?<\/p>\n The Grangers were married in 1950 and lived in Ontario for 25 years.<\/p>\n She enjoyed being home with their five children, but when the youngest was in Kindergarten she became the bookkeeper for Paul Schreiber.\u00a0 It was a full-time job<\/p>\n that lasted 25 years.\u00a0 Actually, she still goes in to help out from time to time.<\/p>\n In 1983, they moved into the home they built on a portion of Harold’s parent’s farm in West Walworth.<\/p>\n When I talked with Nancy, she was baby-sitting one of their nine grand-children.\u00a0 She spoke proudly of their son, Alan, who is the Swim Instructor at the Ontario Golf Club.<\/p>\n Harold was born in West Walworth and maintains that he is a permanent resident of West Walworth, He just had a temporary stay (of 25 years) in Ontario!<\/p>\n “When I was growing up,” he said, “West Walworth was sort of considered the wrong side of town, probably because it had a bar in the center of it.\u00a0 The elite lived on the east side of Walworth and then there were the rest of us…”<\/p>\n The bar he mentioned became a grocery store and now houses several apartments.<\/p>\n After High School at the Walworth Academy, Harold attended Illinois School of Technology and then graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology.\u00a0 He was employed by Kodak for 36 years.<\/p>\n Traveling and photography are two of his hobbies.\u00a0 He as taken slides of their many trips and has them organized in carrousels.\u00a0 Occasionally he gives slide presentations to small groups.\u00a0 He has several terrific shots of bears in Alaska scooping salmon out of the river.\u00a0 His favorite subjects to snap are his grandchildren.\u00a0 He then enlarges the stills to admire or give as Gifts..<\/p>\n Harold is saddened to see so much building going on so near the Blue Heron’s rookery.<\/p>\n “If I ever win the lottery,”\u00a0 he said emphatically, “I’d buy up all the remaining land.\u00a0 Several years ago, I took a walk over where the Home-a-rama is.\u00a0 There were over 50 Blue Heron nests with fledglings in them.\u00a0 Where are they now?”<\/p>\n He hopes some of them will nest in the swampy area he owns behind his home.<\/p>\n Thank you for caring, Nancy and Harold.\u00a0 You are Walworthians, er, West Walworthians with the accent on Worth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 02, 2006 Wayne County MAIL Newspaper<\/p>\n Zion United Methodist Church of W. Walworth<\/p>\n Part I: Fay Willis, Church Historian<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This year, the congregation of Zion United Methodist Church of<\/p>\n and around the hamlet of West Walworth.<\/p>\n In 1953, Rev. Scheib started to collect all the little pieces<\/p>\n of paper with church history on them dating back to 1904 and<\/p>\n transcribe the information into a book for future generations.<\/p>\n Even at that, there were few official documents to preserve and<\/p>\n record the path from an Evangelical Church (1856), United<\/p>\n Brethren (1946, to the Methodist Conference (United Methodist<\/p>\n Church in 1968; yoked with United Methodist Church of Walworth<\/p>\n and Pastor Anne O’Connor in 1969; and as the Zion United<\/p>\n Methodist Church with Pastor Todd Goddard in 2003.)\u00a0 The main<\/p>\n archival book has records of births, marriages, and deaths and<\/p>\n for many years, was faithfully kept up by Edna( Mildhan)Jacobs. a<\/p>\n teacher in the Newark School system.<\/p>\n Fay Willis is the current Church Historian.\u00a0 She is well<\/p>\n qualified for this position, as she has been a member of the<\/p>\n congregation for more than half of its existence.\u00a0 Willis was<\/p>\n born in W. Walworth while her family was living in the apartment<\/p>\n above the Dry Goods Store, across from the Grocery Store and was<\/p>\n Baptized in this church when she was about four\u2011years old.<\/p>\n Willis remembers roller skating with her friends down the<\/p>\n middle of Main Street.\u00a0 It was paved, but, there were few cars<\/p>\n traveling on it during those days. Her mother was the Custodian<\/p>\n of the church, so Willis spent Saturdays cleaning and dusting and<\/p>\n other jobs that fell on the Custodians shoulders.<\/p>\n “It was like my second home,” Willis remarked.\u00a0 “The first<\/p>\n Pastor I remember is Rev. Charles Hess, but the most memorable is<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Norman Pusey.\u00a0 I probably say that because he was our Pastor<\/p>\n while I was a teenager.\u00a0 He was just a wonderful, Christian man<\/p>\n and we all loved his wife, too.\u00a0 Eventually, though, they headed<\/p>\n north.”<\/p>\n “After James and I were married, we went north on our<\/p>\n honeymoon trip.\u00a0 We stopped in to see Rev. Pusey and our car<\/p>\n broke down.\u00a0 We ended up staying several days!”<\/p>\n Although, James and Fay moved to the Penfield area, they<\/p>\n brought their growing family to church at Zion, so they could<\/p>\n stay in touch with their cousins.\u00a0 James and Fay currently have<\/p>\n four grown children; Dan, Judith, Mike and Peter;<\/p>\n plus 11 grand\u2011children; and 2 great\u2011grandchildren.<\/p>\n One of the biggest changes to the church building occurred<\/p>\n in 1956, when a large addition was built on the backside.\u00a0 The<\/p>\n new kitchen, two bathrooms, nursery, office\u00a0 and various<\/p>\n classrooms are always in use.<\/p>\n The women’s group of Zion Methodist is very active in<\/p>\n supporting the Bible Society, Walworth Food Pantry, the Clothing<\/p>\n Closet, Pines of Peace, Vacation Bible School, the Walworth Area<\/p>\n Council of Churches, (to name a few) and the missionary efforts<\/p>\n of the Satres.\u00a0 Mrs. Satre is the daughter of a Zion member,<\/p>\n Victor Smith.\u00a0 Although the Satres are currently home in Texas on<\/p>\n a year’s leave, they have been living in Uganda and have been<\/p>\n translating our English Bible into the Ugandan language.<\/p>\n Each Memorial Day, since 1947, Zion Methodist teams up with<\/p>\n the Baptist Church of W. Walworth and Pastor Gwen Bassage for a<\/p>\n especially moving service honoring the veteran’s.\u00a0 Following the<\/p>\n joint service, the youth place red geraniums on veteran’s graves<\/p>\n in the cemetery across the street from the church while a student<\/p>\n plays taps on his trumpet.\u00a0 A white geranium is placed on the<\/p>\n grave of Rev. John Rosenthal, a former Zion Pastor, who is buried<\/p>\n there.<\/p>\n “The really big church project we all work very hard on,<\/p>\n is our annual turkey dinner,” Willis said.\u00a0 “We started the<\/p>\n turkey dinners about 15\u2011years ago.\u00a0 Everyone, young and old pitch<\/p>\n first Saturday in November.\u00a0 Last year, we served over 600<\/p>\n people.”<\/p>\n Proceeds from the turkey dinner go toward the church’s<\/p>\n numerous projects in our community and around the world.<\/p>\n “I’d like to see more youth involved in the life of the<\/p>\n church,” Willis stated.\u00a0 “There are so many activities and things<\/p>\n that pull our young people away from church on Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n They don’t come because of football practice or swim lessons.<\/p>\n Church just isn’t their second home, the way it was for me.”<\/p>\n Along with their now famous annual turkey dinner and Quilt<\/p>\n Mission activities, Zion Methodist has several special events<\/p>\n planned to commemorate their 150\u2011anniversary, such as a picnic,<\/p>\n pot\u2011luck suppers with various invited guests of honor, and a<\/p>\n super special gala dinner in the fall with as many former Zion<\/p>\n pastors and congregation members as they can find.<\/p>\n For starters, Harold Granger was instrumental in procuring a<\/p>\n huge banner that will adorn the bell tower this year.\u00a0 It’s<\/p>\n bright red letters on a white background, invite you to “Come<\/p>\n <\/p>\n celebrate every Sunday.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Walworthians A collection of telephone interviews published in the Wayne County STAR Newspaper and Wayne County MAIL Newspaper, 1994-209 by Kate Chamberlin Harold F. 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