Ada L. Krone

Ada Krone - History Ada Louise (Hileman) Krone, 87, died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at the York Hospital. She was the wife of John C. Krone of Glen Rock, Pa, and mother of 5 sons and 1 daughter. She was the daughter of Edna I. Kline and Theodore Hileman. Born Nov 17,1926, she grew up near Potosi and attended White Oak School. Possessing a life-long passion for music, she served as church organist at St. Paul “Hametown” Lutheran Church, West Poplar St. (York) Church of God, Windsor Church of God, and Christ Lutheran Church (Loganville). She served as director of adult, youth, and junior choirs at the Loganville Church and also was a pianist for Sunday School and The Music Ensemble. She was also an active member of the Chorister’s Guild, York Area Chapter. As a music educator, it was important to her that her sons and daughter receive the proper music education. When each child reached first grade,she sat that child in front of the family piano and began teaching piano lessons. Ada began her own music education by learning to play the organ. Every Saturday, she walked three miles from her childhood farm to the Thomas Carmen farm,near Potosi, where she took organ lessons from her teacher, Mrs. Seitz. Ada Krone also served as a 4-H leader for 20 years with the Glen Rock Community 4-H club, serving as the leader for the flower and vegetable projects. She was involved in the Loganville PTA, Dallastown Band Parents; the church’s representative to Thrivent, and election worker in Springfield Township. In her early years, she was employed at Coleman’s Furniture manufacturer (Glen Rock), AMP (Glen Rock), Webster Eisenlor Cigar manufacturer (York), and Triumph Hosiery (York). She also served as a waitress at Wiley’s Restaurant (Jacobus). She was a life-long partner in the family farm. Ada was noted for her home-style cooking, making various specialties such as orange or walnut chiffon cakes, red beet eggs (which she made and donated many times for funerals and other special events). Ada was noted for inviting others to join for meals when they came to visit. While the family lived a lifestyle of modest means, there was always plenty to eat and plenty to share with others. Canning and preserving foods was a big part of her contribution to the family. Annually the cellar shelves would be restocked with home-preserved: peaches, pears, plums, pickles, red beets, tomatoes, green beans, corn, even spareribs, and canned beef. Homemade wine, particularly dandelion wine, would line the top shelf. Some of her recipes can be found in the church’s cookbooks. Traditions were important to Ada. At Thanksgiving, there were the home-made pies: pumpkin, apple, cherry, rhubarb, and mincemeat. At Christmas, it would take three days to bake an assortment of home-made cookies. You could walk into the sun porch and find five gallon buckets of cookies, baked and stored, not just for Christmas season, but for the early months of winter. Some of her favorites were Swedish butter cookies, with the red and green sprinkles, and date-and-nut cookies. Of course, the cookies were baked, for the family, neighbors, and friends. On Fastnaught Day, prior to the beginning of Lent, there were the home-made fastnaughts. Three foot long boards would be brought down to the kitchen, covered with white cloth and flour. After kneading and cutting the dough, the fastnaughts would be placed on the boards, and the boards placed on the radiators, to let the dough rise. A special memory was created when little boys, wanting the help, knocked a board of unraised fastnaughts on the floor. After sharing with friends and neighbors, the excess fastnaughts were stored in the freezer, where they lasted until Easter. Ada also was noted for sending cards to others. When someone was sick or in the hospital, she would send a card; when someone had a birthday, she would send a card. When each of her children were in college, every week she would sit down and write out a letter – Letters From Home. Each letter would detail what was happening at home on the farm. Gardening was important to Ada in her prime years. The garden would have a section for flowers, where she would plant here favorites, and a section for growing vegetables, where the family’s produce was grown. Although she was an only child, Ada had close, almost sibling-like relations with three cousins, Doris Heyne, Phyllis Hess, and Wilbur Gross. When she wrote letters to her cousin, Doris, she would close with”your sister-cousin”. For many years, these cousins, and their families, gathered together annually for a summer picnic. A feast of hamburgs, hot dogs, potato salad, etc. was held in “the pines”, on the family farm. Ada is survived by her husband of 63 years, John Sr. She is also survived by 6 children: John C., Jr., Nancy E. and husband Merrill Mummert, and David A, all of Glen Rock; Jerry A. and wife Amy of Fountainville, PA; Martin L. of Fayetteville, PA; and Marvin L. of Mechanicsburg. She has 3 grandchildren: Luke A. Mummert of Loganville, Patti L. and husband Cory Garrett of Glen Rock, and Sandra Krone of Fountainville. She is preceded in death by great-granddaughter McKenna Garrett.