WOW!!!! Fantastic!!! Joe D from MD ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Thill Group Inc" <ttg-inc@comcast.net> To: <WYNNE-GENEALOGY-SOCIETY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [WGS] OUT OF POCKET NOTICE 6/16/2005 > Dear Cuz Joe, > Jus about to sign off. My Mom's family [Davis-Powell] promised their > mother in 1968, on her death bed, that her nine children and their families > would continue the reunions she started in 1961. She also made them promise > that once a year her nine children would gather together. Since then the > nine children and their spouses gather the first Saturday of December every > year for a Christmas party and only they are invited. > On the third weekend of June every year we have the Davis-Powell reunion. > Each year one of the nine host it, rotating through the families, so you > only host it every 9 years. > This is our 44th [forty-fourth] year of having the reunion, so chemo or > not we are having it. We have six of the nine children living, 35 of the 36 > grandchildren living, 81 of the 89 great grandchildren living, and 63 of the > 64 great great grandchildren living, and most try to be there for lunch at > noon, when we do count off and prayer before the main lunch. Then an Auction > to raise money for the next reunion, then games and visiting. Friday night > we have an ice cream social, Sunday we have church service, as there are 3 > ministers in the family, then all head back home for another year. It is fun > and we love it. > I am named after that grandmother "Becky [Rebecca] J. Powell Davis", and > my fathers mother Naomi R. Smith Wynn. > I now will sign off, and see if I can get to Oklahoma and host this > thing!!! See you guys on Sunday night. > Hugs Cuz B > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Beaches" <joebeaches@verizon.net> > To: <WYNNE-GENEALOGY-SOCIETY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: [WGS] OUT OF POCKET NOTICE 6/16/2005 > > >> Reunions are either great, or, "WHY did we do this"? My father got all > the >> Kent Co & Baltimore City Dickersons together for the 1st & only family >> reunion! Never again, he said! I vaguely remember it-don`t recall the >> scawabling, just the good Eastern Shore food. >> >> Enjoy yours, Beckie! >> >> Joe D from MD >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "The Thill Group Inc" <ttg-inc@comcast.net> >> To: <WYNNE-GENEALOGY-SOCIETY-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:35 PM >> Subject: [WGS] OUT OF POCKET NOTICE 6/16/2005 >> >> >> > Dear Cuz's, >> > I am going out of town around 4 pm central time, I will be off line >> until >> > Sunday June 19th, 2005 late in the evening. Should there be any > problems >> I >> > will fix them at that time. >> > >> > [I am hosting my mothers Davis - Powell family reunion in Oklahoma for >> her, >> > it is her turn as it rotates through the nine kids.] >> > >> > Hugs Cuz Becky >> > ttg-inc@comcast.net >> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ttg13/ >> > >> > >> > ============================== >> > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find >> > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: >> > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >> > >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ >> >> >> >> ============================== >> Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. >> Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >> > > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------