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History of Meals On Wheels
The British Red Cross Society and the Women's Voluntary Service carried out the initial effort in England. The program proved so successful that the British government elected to continue this service and today more than one million hot meals per year are delivered in London. The program has spread into Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, India, Israel, Barbados, and through out the British Isles and the United States.
Comes To The United States
Here in the United States, Meals On Wheels began in Philadelphia in 1954. Lutheran Service Society started the
first Meals On Wheels kitchen in Pittsburgh in 1968 on the North Side. The program was launched with 17 clients.
Meals On Wheels serves approximately 2,500 people per day or over 2 million meals per
year! Today more than 5,750 volunteers, serving in many ways, help keep the "wheels rolling"!
The Murrysville Chapter
Murrysville Meals On Wheels was started on February 21, 1972 by Deem Spears and Carole Zinn. They started by serving
8 clients, twice a week asking for a donation of $1.00 a day. We now have grown to 45 clients, 2 meals a day, 4 times
a week yet the donation ask for is only $3.00 a day.
Over 175 volunteers help make this program a success. Many of them have been with the organization from the beginning. This program receives no State or Federal aid but is dependent upon financial support of churches, local services, groups and individual gifts. We are fortunate and most appreciative of the continual support of our community.
| Penn-Franklin News, Murrysville, PA February 1972 |
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| Photo by Scott Studio |
| Kathy Campbell, Joan Hart, Elvira Porterfield, Jean Von-dracek, Helen Lindley and Willie Macrae, (left to right) were in the kitchen of the First Presbyterian Church of Murrysville Monday to prepare the first Meals on Wheels which were later delivered to eight recipients in the Franklin Area. The second meal was delivered Thursday. |