If you came to the reunion...can you find you? If you weren't there...we missed you! What a group! Hope everyone had as much fun as I did...can't wait for the next one...it's going to be a long five years. See you in 2014!Friday, August 14, 2009
Our official Estes Family Reunion picture 2009
If you came to the reunion...can you find you? If you weren't there...we missed you! What a group! Hope everyone had as much fun as I did...can't wait for the next one...it's going to be a long five years. See you in 2014!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
CLIFFORD EUGENE SMELCER
(I added something new at the end. Kathy)
Or as he prefers, and is known among family and friends as "Bromo"...our HONOREE for the month of August, 2009.
Bromo was born on August 19, 1924 to Benjamin Joseph Clifford Smelcer and Katherine Josephine Schuck on a ranch in Garfield County, Washington. He grew up in Baker County, Oregon.
His father was a rancher and worked in sawmills. His mother was a teacher and homemaker.
He was a Private in the Army-Armored Cavalry, serving on the Island of Saipan during WWII.
His first marriage, to Audrey Mulholland resulted in three children: Sheila Marie (married to Thomas Day), Clifford Scott (passed away in 1997), and Gary Dwayne (married Judy), all being born in Sacramento, CA. Audrey passed away in 1984 in Klamath Falls, OR.
He married Irene Hoffman in August 1985, and she passed away in 1998.
Bromo is a "man on the move" as his fore-father, Joel Estes, was. Bromo has lived in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Montana, California, and Nevada. At least we've been able to keep him west of the Mississippi!
He is a "born to bowl", many award-winning, talented cousin. That is his favorite thing to do! He also likes to create with his hands objects of use and pleasure, along with traveling.
When Nan can get him to stay home, he loves to watch Western movies or read Western novels. If he watches T.V., he enjoys learning as much as he can from National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.
When it's time to get up and move, he likes to vacation in Laughlin, Nevada on the Colorado River near Arizona. He also enjoys the Oregon coast, visiting, relaxing, and sight-seeing.
Bromo's favorite color is blue. And if you feed him beef, most any vegetable, and lemon meringue pie, you'll be on his "favorites" list, too!
[HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BROMO!...and may you have many, many more!]
Sorry, Bromo, I wanted to add one more thing that I left out...and that is a
VERY BIG THANK YOU
for serving as the EFA CHAIRMAN from 1989 to 2004! What a fete! That's 15 years, by gosh!!
Or as he prefers, and is known among family and friends as "Bromo"...our HONOREE for the month of August, 2009.
Bromo was born on August 19, 1924 to Benjamin Joseph Clifford Smelcer and Katherine Josephine Schuck on a ranch in Garfield County, Washington. He grew up in Baker County, Oregon.
His father was a rancher and worked in sawmills. His mother was a teacher and homemaker.
He was a Private in the Army-Armored Cavalry, serving on the Island of Saipan during WWII.
His first marriage, to Audrey Mulholland resulted in three children: Sheila Marie (married to Thomas Day), Clifford Scott (passed away in 1997), and Gary Dwayne (married Judy), all being born in Sacramento, CA. Audrey passed away in 1984 in Klamath Falls, OR.
He married Irene Hoffman in August 1985, and she passed away in 1998.
Bromo is a "man on the move" as his fore-father, Joel Estes, was. Bromo has lived in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Montana, California, and Nevada. At least we've been able to keep him west of the Mississippi!
He is a "born to bowl", many award-winning, talented cousin. That is his favorite thing to do! He also likes to create with his hands objects of use and pleasure, along with traveling.
When Nan can get him to stay home, he loves to watch Western movies or read Western novels. If he watches T.V., he enjoys learning as much as he can from National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.
When it's time to get up and move, he likes to vacation in Laughlin, Nevada on the Colorado River near Arizona. He also enjoys the Oregon coast, visiting, relaxing, and sight-seeing.
Bromo's favorite color is blue. And if you feed him beef, most any vegetable, and lemon meringue pie, you'll be on his "favorites" list, too!
[HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BROMO!...and may you have many, many more!]
Sorry, Bromo, I wanted to add one more thing that I left out...and that is a
VERY BIG THANK YOU
for serving as the EFA CHAIRMAN from 1989 to 2004! What a fete! That's 15 years, by gosh!!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
I hope everyone had a great time at the Sesquicentennial (150 years) Reunion. We did!
Our next reunion is scheduled for five years, 2014 (155 years).
Everyone has plenty of time to prepare for that one!
The EFA CHAIR will stay the same until the next reunion.
Come back and check this blog out every month...I'll be posting pictures,
and honouring our cousins that attended the reunion that are 80+.
I'll post any new information that comes my way, also.
Kathy - EFA Historian
Our next reunion is scheduled for five years, 2014 (155 years).
Everyone has plenty of time to prepare for that one!
The EFA CHAIR will stay the same until the next reunion.
Come back and check this blog out every month...I'll be posting pictures,
and honouring our cousins that attended the reunion that are 80+.
I'll post any new information that comes my way, also.
Kathy - EFA Historian
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Estes Newsletters
Hi All,
I'm posting something from the last EFA Newsletter in hopes you can spread the word to those on the list so we can get new information on them:
"Because their recent newsletters have been returned, the following have been dropped from the mailing list:
LOYAL KAY BAHRKE, WILMA NORBERT COX, TERRY CLIFTON, JAMES MASON, VIRGINIA NUTT, LOUISE SCHNECKLOTH, JOHN WEDLAKE."
If you have any information on them please contact me at related2me@yahoo.com.
Thanks,
Kathy
P.S. Please see sidebar for needed email updates.
I'm posting something from the last EFA Newsletter in hopes you can spread the word to those on the list so we can get new information on them:
"Because their recent newsletters have been returned, the following have been dropped from the mailing list:
LOYAL KAY BAHRKE, WILMA NORBERT COX, TERRY CLIFTON, JAMES MASON, VIRGINIA NUTT, LOUISE SCHNECKLOTH, JOHN WEDLAKE."
If you have any information on them please contact me at related2me@yahoo.com.
Thanks,
Kathy
P.S. Please see sidebar for needed email updates.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Letter from Phyllis Young-DeBaecke
June 24, 2009
I am proud to announce I am now a great grandmother for the first time. My son's son and wife just brought a 4 lb. 15oz. little girl into the world and her name is Kayla Alison Young.
That makes it 4 girls in our family and 6 boys. I have one boy and one girl but they have both outdone me with children and I love them all.
I am looking forward to the reunion and will be getting into Denver on the 20th of July and on to Estes Park on the 23rd so hope to see you then.
Thanks for all the info you [and the EFA Chair] put out for us who haven't been together for several years and so glad we have this web site.
Phyllis Young-DeBaecke
I am proud to announce I am now a great grandmother for the first time. My son's son and wife just brought a 4 lb. 15oz. little girl into the world and her name is Kayla Alison Young.
That makes it 4 girls in our family and 6 boys. I have one boy and one girl but they have both outdone me with children and I love them all.
I am looking forward to the reunion and will be getting into Denver on the 20th of July and on to Estes Park on the 23rd so hope to see you then.
Thanks for all the info you [and the EFA Chair] put out for us who haven't been together for several years and so glad we have this web site.
Phyllis Young-DeBaecke
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