Norry woman relishes chance to honor late father with new Valley business | Business
Susan McDermott began her own small business, Ye Ole Dodge House Relish, as a project to keep her busy when she retires.
That’s the practical reasoning.
When it comes to the personal reasoning, the Northumberland woman founded the business as a tribute to her late father, Robert E. Dodge.
Dodge operated the former Ye Ole Dodge House Restaurant in Lewisburg. He’d hoped to take his eatery’s signature homemade relish and sell it commercially. It never came to pass.
Decades later, McDermott was determined to make it happen.
“I only did this, basically, because I wanted to honor my dad and do something that he tried to do. I want him to look down and say, ‘you did it,’” McDermott said Friday following a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at a picnic lunch at the Lewisburg…
