Traugers Memorials and Kellers Church P.O.

I am Ron Murray, I lived next door to the west. I spent almost as much time here as I did at home. There grand son Robert Trauger lived here with Walter and Bert, the owners. Robert was 8 years older than me but he was like my big brother. Sometime in the mid 1960's Robert was given the Kellers Church Granite works by his grandfather Walter. Robert was a pilot, owned a Piper J3 cub. He was also a renowned Skydiver with well over 350 jumps. He was also a well known hot air balloonist. Robert wes killed in a tragic hot air balloon accident in 1968. I was in the air Force at the time, and could not come home. By the time I got out of the Air Force in 1971, the farm had been sold. The farm is still there and surrounded by Nockamixon State park and South park road.
Walter Trauger was the Postmaster at the Post Office, but Bert ran it. They used to get packages to ship from Great Valley Mills. I used to help Bert bag up the boxes for the mail truck in the afternoon.
Missing from the picture is the barber shop. That was located to the right of the Granite Works and took up part of the area where the stones are out front. There were two barbers. Walter was one and Homer Seiwell That lived in the village across from Johnnie Frei's garage, was the other. Homer worked nights for Bethlehem Steel and cut hair during the day.

WOW. Does this place bring back memories. Ron Murray's post was great. He sure remembers a lot more than I do. But, he left out one of my favorite parts of this place............THE CANDY STORE.
I loved walking inside, viewing all the penny candy. I also remember Walter sitting at the end of the table, with his spit-tune! And yes, Bert definitely ran the post office. Such a hard worker.
One of my favorite things to do on a summer evening was walk to Traugers, open the outside ceilar door, and go down and get a cold bottle of orange soda. I think it was 5 cents.
Also, to this day, I still use a letter opener that says.....Kellers Church Granite Works on it.