Pioneer Dairy Chronology
Once a Southwick institution, Pioneer Dairy started as a creamery-turned-milk bottling plant. The Dairy found great success with its assortment of ice cream flavors, pasteurized milk, and its most popular product offering: Fudgie-Frost (almost always mistaken as Fudgsicle®).
Pioneer Dairy Chronology
1903: Future Pioneer Dairy founder Charles Albert Nutter is born on July 25 in the Feeding Hills section of Agawam. His mother, Anna May (Johnson) Nutter, known as Annie, dies from postpartum hemorrhage and shock the same day. Charlie's father, Albert Turner Nutter, sends him to live with Annie's parents, who raise him on their large farm in Southwick's Long Yard District (North Longyard Road).
1912: Albert Nutter remarries. He weds 21-year-old Grace Williams on March 27.
1914: Charlie attends the North Longyard schoolhouse, where he gets routinely recognized for punctuality and perfect attendance.
1915: In a community-wide celebration in Southwick in July, Charlie takes first place in a bicycle race (for boys under 12).
1919: Charlie's left hand gets caught in a cornhusker; doctors amputate his first finger at the first joint and his third finger at the second joint.
1920: Charlie accepts a position with Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Co. of Springfield. (The company, which relocated to a new factory in West Springfield in 1912, is reportedly known for its T-6, the first precise self-measuring gasoline pump.)
1921: During a November meeting, the Town of Southwick approves the installation of poles and stringing electric wires to provide electric light to homes and buildings from Springfield Road (today's Feeding Hills Road) down North Longyard Road.
1922: Charlie loses control of his truck after hitting a pothole while driving in West Springfield on March 30. Crashing into a telegraph pole, he damages the truck's front spring, mudguard, radiator, and one headlight. Charlie marries Mabel Ada Decker in Nassau, New York.
1924: The Nutters have a Happy Valentine's Day when Mabel gives birth to Charles Elbert Nutter on February 14. By April, the Nutter's are residing on Springfield Road in Southwick.
1927: Mable gives birth to Anna ("Anne") on July 19. A Pioneer Dairy truck gets stuck in a large hole as flooding causes the collapse of several roads around a section of Memorial Avenue in West Springfield.
Pioneer Dairy Chronology
1903: Future Pioneer Dairy founder Charles Albert Nutter is born on July 25 in the Feeding Hills section of Agawam. His mother, Anna May (Johnson) Nutter, known as Annie, dies from postpartum hemorrhage and shock the same day. Charlie's father, Albert Turner Nutter, sends him to live with Annie's parents, who raise him on their large farm in Southwick's Long Yard District (North Longyard Road).
1912: Albert Nutter remarries. He weds 21-year-old Grace Williams on March 27.
1914: Charlie attends the North Longyard schoolhouse, where he gets routinely recognized for punctuality and perfect attendance.
1915: In a community-wide celebration in Southwick in July, Charlie takes first place in a bicycle race (for boys under 12).
1919: Charlie's left hand gets caught in a cornhusker; doctors amputate his first finger at the first joint and his third finger at the second joint.
1920: Charlie accepts a position with Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Co. of Springfield. (The company, which relocated to a new factory in West Springfield in 1912, is reportedly known for its T-6, the first precise self-measuring gasoline pump.)
1921: During a November meeting, the Town of Southwick approves the installation of poles and stringing electric wires to provide electric light to homes and buildings from Springfield Road (today's Feeding Hills Road) down North Longyard Road.
1922: Charlie loses control of his truck after hitting a pothole while driving in West Springfield on March 30. Crashing into a telegraph pole, he damages the truck's front spring, mudguard, radiator, and one headlight. Charlie marries Mabel Ada Decker in Nassau, New York.
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| Pioneer Dairy |
c. 1923: Charlie opens what becomes Pioneer Dairy. (At different times, Charlie and his daughter referenced Pioneer Dairy as founded in 1920.) It's a small creamery operation located at Foster's Corner in Southwick. (In addition to Pioneer Dairy, Charlie Nutter, his daughter, Anna "Anne" Colson, and her husband established Camen Realty Corp. for their real estate holdings. Camen later executed a lease to the Dairy and the Nutter's primary residence - located next door to the Dairy. Because of their growing landholdings, the corner of North Longyard Road, Foster Road, and Feeding Hills Road became known as Camen Corners.)
1924: The Nutters have a Happy Valentine's Day when Mabel gives birth to Charles Elbert Nutter on February 14. By April, the Nutter's are residing on Springfield Road in Southwick.
1927: Mable gives birth to Anna ("Anne") on July 19. A Pioneer Dairy truck gets stuck in a large hole as flooding causes the collapse of several roads around a section of Memorial Avenue in West Springfield.
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| Anne Nutter |
1930: Charlie Nutter picks up payments from some West Springfield stores doing business with Pioneer Dairy. When he deposits the cash at the West Springfield Trust Company, the head teller handling the money senses something amiss and identifies a counterfeit $10 bill which the local police department later sends to the secret service office in Boston for investigation.
1931: Anne Nutter falls seriously ill with double pneumonia in February.
1932: After they eat dinner, Southwick Boy Scout Troop #114 tours Pioneer Dairy. They learn how to clean bottles and pasteurize milk.
1933: Pioneer Dairy provides transportation for kids in Springfield to get to summer camp after the local government fails to do so.
1936: Charlie Nutter, noticing something amiss, contacts Massachusetts State Police, who investigate and arrest two Agawam men for siphoning about seven gallons of gasoline from a Pioneer Dairy delivery truck. Appearing in court on September 4, the judge fines the thieves $25 each. They have until the 18th to pay or report to jail.
1937: The Dairy seeks the public's help as it tries to locate a wheel that fell off one of its delivery trucks. The black tire and orange rim with International stamped on the hubcap disappeared along the truck's return from Springfield.
1938: Charles E. Nutter and his wife celebrate the birth of a daughter, Carol Ann, born on August 13. Albert Nutter (b. January 27, 1878) gets admitted to Wesson Memorial Hospital; he dies there on November 16.
1941: It is unclear why, but John Liquori of Agawam sues Pioneer Dairy for $12,000 in Springfield District Court in March.
1942: With World War II raging, the rationing board gives Pioneer Dairy two tires and two tubes in March. A blast rocks Southwick on the morning of April 12 when an ammonia tank at Pioneer Dairy explodes, blowing out a wall and throwing pieces of ice cream-making equipment and a milk refrigeration system some 50-ft. away and destroying hundreds of milk and cream glass bottles. People over a mile away hear the explosion. Westfield firefighters assist with the resulting blaze. Estimated loss: $10,000. (The Dairy was constructed of cement blocks on three sides with one wooden wall.)
1943: Charles E. Nutter and his wife celebrate the birth of their daughter Gloria, born on July 6.
1931: Anne Nutter falls seriously ill with double pneumonia in February.
1932: After they eat dinner, Southwick Boy Scout Troop #114 tours Pioneer Dairy. They learn how to clean bottles and pasteurize milk.
1933: Pioneer Dairy provides transportation for kids in Springfield to get to summer camp after the local government fails to do so.
1936: Charlie Nutter, noticing something amiss, contacts Massachusetts State Police, who investigate and arrest two Agawam men for siphoning about seven gallons of gasoline from a Pioneer Dairy delivery truck. Appearing in court on September 4, the judge fines the thieves $25 each. They have until the 18th to pay or report to jail.
1937: The Dairy seeks the public's help as it tries to locate a wheel that fell off one of its delivery trucks. The black tire and orange rim with International stamped on the hubcap disappeared along the truck's return from Springfield.
1938: Charles E. Nutter and his wife celebrate the birth of a daughter, Carol Ann, born on August 13. Albert Nutter (b. January 27, 1878) gets admitted to Wesson Memorial Hospital; he dies there on November 16.
1941: It is unclear why, but John Liquori of Agawam sues Pioneer Dairy for $12,000 in Springfield District Court in March.
1942: With World War II raging, the rationing board gives Pioneer Dairy two tires and two tubes in March. A blast rocks Southwick on the morning of April 12 when an ammonia tank at Pioneer Dairy explodes, blowing out a wall and throwing pieces of ice cream-making equipment and a milk refrigeration system some 50-ft. away and destroying hundreds of milk and cream glass bottles. People over a mile away hear the explosion. Westfield firefighters assist with the resulting blaze. Estimated loss: $10,000. (The Dairy was constructed of cement blocks on three sides with one wooden wall.)
1943: Charles E. Nutter and his wife celebrate the birth of their daughter Gloria, born on July 6.
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Pioneer Dairy's Most Popular Product: Fudgie-Frost (almost always mistaken as Fudgsicle®) |
1944: A Pioneer Dairy truck crushes four-year-old Mary Elasmar to death as it backs out of her parents' driveway in Agawam on February 18. Gloria Jeanne Nutter (born July 6, 1943) dies September 1.
1946: Charles "Bud" Elbert Nutter (born February 14, 1924) enters Wesson Memorial Hospital in April; he dies there on May 21.
1948: Wearing a heavy slipper-satin gown trimmed with Chantilly lace and a French illusion finger-tip veil featuring imported wax orange blossoms, Anne Nutter, daughter of Pioneer Dairy founder Charlie Nutter, marries Pioneer Dairy employee Charles Colson in a single-ring service on September 11.
1950: En route to a call, a fire truck skids and hits several cars before crashing into a Pioneer Dairy delivery truck during a severe thunderstorm in West Springfield on August 29. The damaged pumper is a setback for police and firefighters, whose hands are full as lightning strikes start several fires, including at least two telephone poles set ablaze. The storm causes multiple vehicle wrecks as it floods roads, making them impassable with water five feet deep in some places and collapsing in others. Homes and businesses take on water as shingles blow off roofs and basements flood. (At the time, it was one of the most severe thunderstorms in West Springfield's history.)
1951: Beating the only other bidder, Pioneer Dairy wins the milk contract for Agawam schools. The agreement calls for approximately 167,000 half-pint glass bottles of milk at 4.7¢ per bottle. (The other company bid 5.7¢.)
1946: Charles "Bud" Elbert Nutter (born February 14, 1924) enters Wesson Memorial Hospital in April; he dies there on May 21.
1948: Wearing a heavy slipper-satin gown trimmed with Chantilly lace and a French illusion finger-tip veil featuring imported wax orange blossoms, Anne Nutter, daughter of Pioneer Dairy founder Charlie Nutter, marries Pioneer Dairy employee Charles Colson in a single-ring service on September 11.
1950: En route to a call, a fire truck skids and hits several cars before crashing into a Pioneer Dairy delivery truck during a severe thunderstorm in West Springfield on August 29. The damaged pumper is a setback for police and firefighters, whose hands are full as lightning strikes start several fires, including at least two telephone poles set ablaze. The storm causes multiple vehicle wrecks as it floods roads, making them impassable with water five feet deep in some places and collapsing in others. Homes and businesses take on water as shingles blow off roofs and basements flood. (At the time, it was one of the most severe thunderstorms in West Springfield's history.)
1951: Beating the only other bidder, Pioneer Dairy wins the milk contract for Agawam schools. The agreement calls for approximately 167,000 half-pint glass bottles of milk at 4.7¢ per bottle. (The other company bid 5.7¢.)
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| Unique Pioneer Dairy Glass Bottle (from the author's personal collection) |
1952: Following an 8,000-mile automobile trip to California, Charlie and Mabel Nutter return to their Southwick home in October. During their travels, they attend the Dairy Exposition in Chicago.
1955: Charlie and Mabel Nutter, along with Ms. Emma Cass, return to Southwick in February after spending three weeks in Florida, mainly vacationing at Hollywood Beach.
1957: Mabel Nutter (b. May 1, 1900) dies in her and Charlie's Southwick home on September 18.
1958: With its low bid of 6¢ per glass bottle, Pioneer Dairy wins the contract to furnish milk, straws, and electric coolers to East Longmeadow schools, where students will consume an estimated 1,800 half-pint bottles each day.
1960: Reporting to work around 4:45 a.m. on August 6, an unnamed employee notifies Massachusetts State Police after discovering $58 missing after a break-in at Pioneer Dairy. (The case, it is believed, remains unsolved.)
1961: Charlie Nutter obtains a permit to build a storage room off the front of the Dairy. The new space, estimated to cost $1,500, will house spare parts for the milk-bottling and ice cream-making machines.
1964: The 8-to-9-year-old division Pioneer Dairy Cubs are awarded a trophy at the Recreation Center's annual meeting in October. Winners of other (baseball) divisions include Cogswell & Son's Tigers (10-to-12 division), the Community Drugs Leafs (13-to-15 division), and Gene's Sunoco (10-to-12 B division).
1965: In a close basketball game, the Lions beat Pioneer Dairy 24-22 during the Recreation Center's season opener in December.
1966: Tied for first in the final 10-to-12-year-old league game of the season, Pioneer Dairy's basketball team ends the season with nine wins and four losses after defeating B&E Tool Co. 32 - 17. Pioneer Dairy wins again when East Longmeadow awards it the contract to furnish approximately 3,000 bottles of milk, at 5¢ per bottle, for the upcoming school year. The school board in Granby, Connecticut, awards Pioneer Dairy the contract to provide milk at 5.89¢ per bottle, while Milton Bradley Co. wins the contract to furnish general school supplies. (During this time, the Dairy's officers are Charlie Nutter, president and treasurer; Charles Colson, vice president; and Anne Colson, secretary.)
1967: Employing about 30, Pioneer Dairy distributes 40,000 quarts of milk daily. Pioneer Dairy becomes the first in the eastern United States as it rolls out one-gallon returnable (or deposit) plastic milk bottles to area supermarkets. The bottles, made in the U.S.A., can be used an estimated 100-to-200 times. With Consolidated School lacking a PTA, Pioneer Dairy provides refreshments to students and guests during the school's annual Christmas program and classroom parties held on December 22, the last day before the students' break for Christmas recess.
1969: For the second year in a row, Pioneer Dairy wins the contract to provide milk to students in Suffield, Connecticut.
1970: Pioneer Dairy wins the Selectmen's Award for its float in the Town of Southwick's bi-centennial parade.
1971: In his $25,000 lawsuit against Pioneer Dairy, a West Springfield man claims he became violently ill after drinking "diseased and unwholesome" milk he purchased at a local Dairy Mart. Emma H.(Stevenson) (Cass) Nutter (b. Dec. 21, 1898) dies on August 11 at Noble Hospital. She gets buried alongside her first husband; her gravestone reads in part: "also wife of Charles Nutter." (Emma's first husband, Alvin Cass, died in 1952.)
1972: East Granby Board of Education awards Pioneer Dairy the school milk contract for the low bid of 6.9¢ per carton. The $10,000 contract (about 900 cartons per day) is the same price the Dairy charged during the previous school year. The price increases to 7.49¢ the following year, but students won't have any additional out-of-pocket expenses.
1978: Pioneer Dairy employee Robert A. Storey dies December 23. (He worked there for 11 years.)
1979: Pioneer Dairy beats Guida-Seibert Dairy Co., the only other bidder, after the latter bids 16¢ per half-pint over the Dairy's winning bid of 10.97¢ to provide milk to East Granby schools.
1981: Students of East Granby schools see out-of-pocket milk prices rise from 4¢ to 5¢ for the upcoming school year. (East Granby schools lacked a hot lunch program.) Pioneer Dairy, which provided milk for the last five years, wins the contract at 14¢ per half-pint, with taxpayers picking up the price difference. Grace (Williams) Nutter (b. February 12, 1891) dies September 8.
1982: Harold A. Burbeck, a 26-year mechanic for Pioneer Dairy, dies March 9.
1983: Douglas E. Cass, a driver for Pioneer Dairy, dies at his Foster Road home on October 13. (Son of Alvin and Emma Cass.)
1990: Pioneer Dairy founder Charlie Nutter dies June 25.
1955: Charlie and Mabel Nutter, along with Ms. Emma Cass, return to Southwick in February after spending three weeks in Florida, mainly vacationing at Hollywood Beach.
1957: Mabel Nutter (b. May 1, 1900) dies in her and Charlie's Southwick home on September 18.
1958: With its low bid of 6¢ per glass bottle, Pioneer Dairy wins the contract to furnish milk, straws, and electric coolers to East Longmeadow schools, where students will consume an estimated 1,800 half-pint bottles each day.
1960: Reporting to work around 4:45 a.m. on August 6, an unnamed employee notifies Massachusetts State Police after discovering $58 missing after a break-in at Pioneer Dairy. (The case, it is believed, remains unsolved.)
1961: Charlie Nutter obtains a permit to build a storage room off the front of the Dairy. The new space, estimated to cost $1,500, will house spare parts for the milk-bottling and ice cream-making machines.
1964: The 8-to-9-year-old division Pioneer Dairy Cubs are awarded a trophy at the Recreation Center's annual meeting in October. Winners of other (baseball) divisions include Cogswell & Son's Tigers (10-to-12 division), the Community Drugs Leafs (13-to-15 division), and Gene's Sunoco (10-to-12 B division).
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| A few Pioneer Dairy items (from the author's personal collection) |
1965: In a close basketball game, the Lions beat Pioneer Dairy 24-22 during the Recreation Center's season opener in December.
1966: Tied for first in the final 10-to-12-year-old league game of the season, Pioneer Dairy's basketball team ends the season with nine wins and four losses after defeating B&E Tool Co. 32 - 17. Pioneer Dairy wins again when East Longmeadow awards it the contract to furnish approximately 3,000 bottles of milk, at 5¢ per bottle, for the upcoming school year. The school board in Granby, Connecticut, awards Pioneer Dairy the contract to provide milk at 5.89¢ per bottle, while Milton Bradley Co. wins the contract to furnish general school supplies. (During this time, the Dairy's officers are Charlie Nutter, president and treasurer; Charles Colson, vice president; and Anne Colson, secretary.)
1967: Employing about 30, Pioneer Dairy distributes 40,000 quarts of milk daily. Pioneer Dairy becomes the first in the eastern United States as it rolls out one-gallon returnable (or deposit) plastic milk bottles to area supermarkets. The bottles, made in the U.S.A., can be used an estimated 100-to-200 times. With Consolidated School lacking a PTA, Pioneer Dairy provides refreshments to students and guests during the school's annual Christmas program and classroom parties held on December 22, the last day before the students' break for Christmas recess.
1969: For the second year in a row, Pioneer Dairy wins the contract to provide milk to students in Suffield, Connecticut.
1970: Pioneer Dairy wins the Selectmen's Award for its float in the Town of Southwick's bi-centennial parade.
1971: In his $25,000 lawsuit against Pioneer Dairy, a West Springfield man claims he became violently ill after drinking "diseased and unwholesome" milk he purchased at a local Dairy Mart. Emma H.(Stevenson) (Cass) Nutter (b. Dec. 21, 1898) dies on August 11 at Noble Hospital. She gets buried alongside her first husband; her gravestone reads in part: "also wife of Charles Nutter." (Emma's first husband, Alvin Cass, died in 1952.)
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| Pioneer Dairy 1972 |
1978: Pioneer Dairy employee Robert A. Storey dies December 23. (He worked there for 11 years.)
1979: Pioneer Dairy beats Guida-Seibert Dairy Co., the only other bidder, after the latter bids 16¢ per half-pint over the Dairy's winning bid of 10.97¢ to provide milk to East Granby schools.
1981: Students of East Granby schools see out-of-pocket milk prices rise from 4¢ to 5¢ for the upcoming school year. (East Granby schools lacked a hot lunch program.) Pioneer Dairy, which provided milk for the last five years, wins the contract at 14¢ per half-pint, with taxpayers picking up the price difference. Grace (Williams) Nutter (b. February 12, 1891) dies September 8.
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| Pioneer Diary 1977 (Note the nonexistent green fence) |
1982: Harold A. Burbeck, a 26-year mechanic for Pioneer Dairy, dies March 9.
1983: Douglas E. Cass, a driver for Pioneer Dairy, dies at his Foster Road home on October 13. (Son of Alvin and Emma Cass.)
1985: The First Congregational Church in Chester, Mass., holds its 30th annual blueberry supper in July. In addition to other sweet treats, it features blueberry ice cream, a crowd favorite, made exclusively for the event by Pioneer Dairy.
1986: Half-gallon jugs of Pioneer Dairy fruit flavored drinks sell for .69¢ each at Zampiceni's Market Place in West Springfield during their Fourth of July picnic "sale," whole watermelons .19¢ lb. (The fruit drinks were the same price there in May 1986 and 1987 too.)
1987: Pioneer Dairy purchases 5,000 anti-drug folders it plans to distribute to kids during the summer of 1988.
1988: For the upcoming New Year's holiday, half-gallons of Pioneer Dairy eggnog are on sale at Western Beef in Westfield for $2.39 each.
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1991: Former Pioneer Dairy employee Irvine Leroy "Harry" Burdick dies December 28. (Harry worked for the Dairy for 38 years.)
1992: The Southwick Rotary Club steals a three-foot-tall, papier-mâché lion off the Southwick Lion's Club float used in the Southwick Firemen's Carnival parade. The Lions place more than 50 Pioneer Dairy milk cartons in area businesses to help collect enough money to pay the Rotary Club's $1,000 ransom. (The lion turned up in a makeshift jail in the produce department of Big E's Supermarket.)
1994: Being the only bidder, Pioneer Dairy is awarded the milk contract for East Granby schools following a 7-0 vote.
1995: Former Pioneer Dairy bookkeeper Sally June (Case) Vandomo dies May 17. Mt. Tom Dairy branded milk hits stores in June. Agri-Mark buys the milk and brings it to Pioneer Dairy for processing, packaging, and limited local delivery to retail stores. (A distributor also delivered the milk.)
1996: Pioneer Dairy employee Theresa Haseltine suffers severe injuries when her right arm gets caught in a milk bottling machine on March 1.
1997: In a risky move to help save six family farms and fight artificially low government-controlled milk prices, the Pioneer Valley Milk Marketing Cooperative forms. The new cooperative hires Pioneer Dairy to convert raw milk into a shelf-ready, end-user product. Although limited in capacity, Pioneer Dairy is unique in that its processing plant can keep the cooperative's milk separate from other sources, thus maintaining its integrity by ensuring that it's not mixed in with milk from other sources. The six farms plan to milk 250 dairy cows twice daily to meet the co-op's initial goal of marketing 8,000 gallons of milk per week under the brand name: "Our Family Farms of Western Massachusetts." Big Y announces that starting September 11, it will sell the co-op's milk in all 18 of its stores, making it the only local supermarket chain to do so. Some restaurants will also serve the co-op's milk; Chandler's Restaurant at Yankee Candle in South Deerfield is the first. (Initial sales were good, with some stores selling out, even though H.P. Hood and Garelick Farms lowered their milk prices the week of the co-op's product launch in a move the companies said was purely coincidental. The change widened the price gap from about .10¢ per carton to .60¢, leading to a significant disadvantage.)
2003: An 18-wheeler milk tanker truck crashes on Route 57 in Granville after picking up milk from a farm there on March 3. The accident kills the newly hired 26-year-old Harris Transportation driver when the tanker flips over and strikes a tree on the Town Green. Police believe the milk shifted as the truck traveled downhill en route to Pioneer Dairy. (The truck may have been going to Agri-Mark in West Springfield as Harris made deliveries to both companies.)
2004: Former longtime Pioneer Dairy employee Robert Harry Oppenheimer dies March 15. Agri-Mark sues Pioneer Dairy. In their lawsuit, they successfully petition the court for the attachment of personal property and equipment of $281,147.30. In a written statement on October 29, Pioneer Dairy owner Anne Colson announces that after "85 years," Pioneer Dairy is ending its milk business. That same day, the Dairy files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in an attempt to reorganize as it struggles to keep its creamery division operating. Another longtime employee, Ross Haseltine Sr., dies on November 15. (Robert Oppenheimer worked for the Dairy for 45 years; Ross Haseltine, 35 years.)
2005: In its answer to the court in the Agri-Mark case, Pioneer Dairy suggests that it may file Chapter 7 bankruptcy (liquidation), which it does.
2009: Anne Philena (Nutter) Colson dies on May 15. (Her obituary contains some inaccuracies.)
2014: Charlie Morse, a longtime truck driver for Pioneer Dairy, dies on August 9. (Morse's daughter married one of Anne and Charlie Colson's sons.)
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| "Polly" |
2015: Former Pioneer Dairy front office employee Esther C. Mae "Polly" (Colson) (Waterman) Symonds dies on March 16. Daniel E. Racicot, a delivery man for Pioneer Dairy for 25 years, dies August 14. Kenneth E. Johnson dies on October 3. (Johnson worked for Pioneer Dairy for 45 years.)
2018: Charlie Robert "Chinky” Colson dies September 25.
2020: The Town of Southwick explores the decaying Pioneer Dairy property for a new cell tower.
2022: Joseph "Joe" Zanolli, who worked for Pioneer Dairy for many years, dies on December 14.
2023: Carol Ann (Nutter) Barnes (b. August 13, 1942) dies on November 29.
2024: Eugene "Gene" Alfred Barnes (b. October 27, 1938), husband of Carol Ann Nutter, dies on August 12.
Present Day: Pioneer Dairy, once a proud Southwick institution, sits in ruin.
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| Charlie Morse and Anne Colson (seated) with Yours Truly (center) |
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| Pioneer Dairy Letterhead (from the author's personal collection) |
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