Aunt Sallie’s 80th Birthday Party

Aunt Sallie

Last Sunday, Kim, Bonnie, Sandy and I drove to Eugene, Oregon, to help celebrate my aunt’s birthday.  Her children and grandchildren, esp. Georgi, Mike, and Margaret (and others I’m sure!) hosted a gathering of about 100 family and friends at a church meeting hall which was only a few blocks from their old family home on Park Avenue.  All seven of Aunt Sallie’s children attended, as did her two nieces and nephew of her brother George who passed away a few years ago.  I’d never met Uncle George’s children and I had not seen several of Aunt Sallie’s kids since 1971.  So in a way, this party also felt like a reunion.  Afterwards, many of us met in cousin Corey’s motel room for several more hours to get caught up on family and life in general.

 Guests mingling and getting reacquainted

Dinner line

Enjoying the delicious dinner

Babe leads the group in singing “Happy Birthday”

From left to right:  Herald, Sallie, Mike, Mary Alice, Lyn, Corey, Eleanor, Margaret

From left to right:  Corey, Amy, Clayton, Ben, and Mary

Additional Photos — just click on thumbnails to enlarge.  Most of these are me posing with my cousins.

  more minglers

  Georgi showing her dad Mike how to run the slideshow

  Ben and Alice Malarkey Koeler

  Aunt Sallie and a great grand daughter

  Ben, Corey, and his son Brandon

  Mike serving as emcee

  Clayton    Amy & son John

  Georgi and me;

and with Georgi, Amy and John

  & Mary Alice;  &  Aunt Sallie

with Lyn ;  & Margaret

& Herald & Gwen

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