Her office was located next to the office of her father, physician William Wethers. Castrated males are called "wethers". Summanus also received a sacrifice of two black oxen or wethers. Wethers also co-founded the Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease with Drs. Mrs. Frey kept several of her bucks born in 1954, some as wethers. Wethers, rams, and ewes under breeding age comprised about one-half the sheep. Following a dry year, in 1908, 4,000 wethers were sold from the station. In England, wethers were trained to lead flocks of ewes to pasture. Wethers served as director of the hospital's sickle cell program until retiring in 1999. Wethers died after a stroke on January 28, 2019 in Yonkers, New York, aged 91.