Only Roger beat Hank and Angie to the reunion site – a pavilion at riverfront Bisset Park. The husband and daughter of Hank’s late sister, Edith (Ken and Kandy) arrived next and we began arranging and preparing the picnic tables and grills.

​In addition to the above attendees, there was:
– Hank’s oldest brother Douglas’ son, Doug, and his wife, Jamie from Texas
– Hank’s oldest sister, Eleanor’s daughter, Cathy, with her husband Todd and daughter, Callista from Kentucky
– Hank’s brother Butch’s daughter, Heather and her husband Rabiou from Pennsylvania
– Edith’s granddaughter, Amber, her husband, Mikeal, and young children Kennedy and MJ from Pennsylvania
– Hank’s cousin, Jim and his wife, Jeanne from Richmond, Virginia
– Family friends Pearl Dobbins (age 103) and her granddaughter Sherry from Radford, Virginia
– Family friend Bernice Phillips from Radford, Virginia

For most of us, this is the only weekend in the year when we see each other. But we picked up right where we had left off the previous year. We get closer and have more fun each year.