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Thurmont’s Oldest Citizen Turns 102

Dr. Carroll Loved His Life
in Emmitsburg
James Rada, Jr.

Read Beulah Zentz (pictured right) Photo by James Rada, Jr. Albert got a reputation of being
the may not have been born in the person to go to if you needed
story Thurmont, but the town’s oldest a helping hand.
o n resident has become a part of Beulah did her part to assist
page the town’s history. the family. She worked for a time
at the shoe factory in town, but
She was born on May 26,
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1916, near Chambersburg, then she found a better way to
Pennsylvania. Fresh out of help out.
The Zentzes owned a building
high school, she met Ethel next to the railroad tracks
Hockensmith. Beulah went
ssue Erin Dingle — The Next to help Ethel with housework and near the shoe factory. The
at her home in Zullinger,
upstairs rooms were rented out
Chapter
I Pennsylvania. Beulah stayed as apartments, but the Zentzes
had another idea for the ground
with her about a week before
his Read Ethel asked her, “Do you want floor.
a job?”
“The shoe factory wanted
Ethel’s brother owned and
T the operated the Munshour Dairies something so people could have
story
snacks and eat,” Beulah said.
nside page made the move to Thurmont was born. Employees at the shoe
o n
And, so, the Sunrise Cafeteria
in Thurmont. So, Beulah
in 1932. She lived with the
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factory would place orders, and
one employee would walk over
milking sixteen cows twice a
to the cafeteria to pick up the
I Munshours. Her work included had to travel from Thurmont to order of milk and sandwiches that
day, washing glass milk bottles, and
hat’s New Emmitsburg bottling milk. Munshour Dairies Chambersburg to visit her. He finally the employees would eat on their
delivered milk by horse and wagon
told her that it was too far to travel.
break.
Swimming Pool
to locations throughout Thurmont.
The Western Maryland Railroad
Beulah had a choice to make,
W Read Sometimes, Beulah would ride along. and she chose Albert over her job. passenger trains also stopped at the
She moved back in with her family,
“The only place she got to go while
cafeteria. “They made it a point to
she was living there was the Lutheran
stop there and eat,” Beulah said.
who were living in New Franklin,
the church,” said Viola Noffsinger, Pennsylvania. Once she did, Beulah The cafeteria operated for years
story Beulah’s daughter. said, “He started visiting more often.” until bureaucracy began interfering.
o n It was there that she met Albert They married on February 24, 1936. Insurance rates climbed because
page Zentz, a local farmer. The two Albert had taken over his family’s the cafeteria sold fresh milk, not
14 got along well, but before their farm in 1934, and Beulah moved into pasteurized. Then the health
relationship could really develop, the farmhouse at 158 North Carroll inspector told Beulah that they
Beulah moved back to Chambersburg. Street in Thurmont. “We had animals would need new coolers to hold the
A friend of hers invited Beulah of all kinds,” Beulah said. “Hogs, milk, which were too expensive. The
Look inside for these and other to come work at a factory in calves, beef cattle, chickens.” They cafeteria closed in the early 1950s.
stories of interest, along with our Chambersburg for $7.50 a week. also grew vegetables to sell in town. Beulah continued working with
monthly columns, as well as our Beulah was only making $3.00 a week The farmhouse also became quite companies like Claire Frock and
Look Who Took Us Along, Pet at Munshour Dairies, so she jumped crowded. Albert’s parents, Wendell Hillside Turkey.
of the Month, and our Hidden at the new job. and Florence, continued to live in the Albert died in 2002. He and
Object and Where Am I? Games. This complicated her growing house, and Beulah and Albert started Beulah had been married for sixty-
relationship with Albert, who their family. Jean (Heims) was born seven years.
in 1939, Viola (Noffsinger) in 1940, Beulah is now 102 years old,
Mary (Eyler) in 1942, and Wendell in making her Thurmont’s oldest
1954. citizen. However, she has had health
As the town grew, factories began issues this year, including pneumonia.
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Meanwhile, Albert not only life is, Beulah said, “I never gave it
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