I wasn’t able to make it to the reunion this year due to an illness in the family, but Kristin is there, and she sends us this photo from tonight’s dinner at the Cracker Barrel in LaGrange. Click on the picture for a full-size view.

Kristin reports that attendance is at 52 and counting!

I know these are very late, but I promise to get pictures for this year’s reunion up sooner than the next reunion.

Anyway, take a look at photos from our 2008 reunion in Jackson, Mississippi.

Carolyn Denney wrote to let us know that her husband, John Willis Denney passed away June 1, 2008. The memory booklet she sent included the following info:

In Memory of Mr. John Willis Denney
Born: June 25, 1913
Died: June 1, 2008

Services held at McKibben Funeral Home Chapel
2:00 pm Tuesday, June 3rd
Officiating: The Reverend Alvin Lingenfelter

Interment
Sunset Memorial Park, Coos Bay, Oregon
2:00 pm Thursday June 5th
Officiating: The Reverend Clarence Denney

Linda Hunt asked me to pass this info along:

Please pray for one of the Henry line descendants, Mary Clyde McDaniel Johnson, who has cancer of the pancreas and liver. She is one of the great-granddaughters of Susan Francis Dingler Gregg. Her grandmother, Mary Jane Gregg McDaniel, and my grandmother, Elizabeth Amelia Ann Gregg Owens Cook, were sisters. Her brother, who wants to come [to the reunion], but probably will not because of Mary Clyde, is called Billy Mac. They are close in age and very close in their lives. They live close together. She is about the sweetest woman that I know. And the most giving. When her first cousin was dying of cancer, she took her into her home and cared for her until she died.

The Dingler web site has a new look and feel! I took advantage of the move to a new software platform (moved from Movable Type to WordPress in case you’re curious) and went hunting for a new theme. This one seemed to be a good fit for the family history aspect of the site. Enjoy!