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Donna Hart Parson Samuel Walter Varner, now a trim and active eighty-four years old, joined the Masonic Order in 1919 and was recently honored by Lodge No. 78 AF and AM of Washington, Va. when he was awarded a fifty year pin. He has lived on the rolling one-hundred-and-thirty-three acre Varner homestead for most of his busy life. The tall white house at the crest of the hill commands a panoramic view of the Blue Ridge. Black cattle dot the fields and a tall pine with drooping branches stands beside the house.
During World War I Mr. Varner served as a cook in the East coast camps of Fort Dix, New Jersey, Fort Lee, Virginia and the old Washington Barracks in the District of Columbia. He is still an ambitious cook and likes to bake biscuits in a wood-burning stove. He serves these with his own home-grown and homemade grape jelly or quince preserves.
During World War II he joined the Page Power Company, now the Potomac Edison, and worked for seventeen years as a lineman repairing storm damage, wiring buildings, and maintaining an enviable safety record.
During this time also, he began to repair and make clocks. This hobby became a source of steady extra-hours employment. His interest in clocks and watch making began when he was a young boy. He took watches apart and learned to reassemble them. Although he no longer makes or repairs clocks, he is still a clock lover and his living room contains large and small clocks of varied sizes and styles. -
There are three interesting clocks on his mantle: a clock resembling a small cathedral with miniature turrets is one that he
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