Dancing at Martinez next Sunday!

Catherine Clay O'Neal wrote to say that her husband Winston and The Nashville Sounds will be playing at Martinez Social Club next Sunday, August 17th, from 3-6:30pm. 

Hope to see you there!

Memorial Service for John Kuykendahl

For those planning to attend the memorial service for John Kuykendahl, it is scheduled for Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. at the Sunset Funeral Home located at 1701 Austin Hwy in San Antonio. If you need additional information, the telephone number for Sunset Funeral Home is (210) 828-2811.

Our Friend John Kuykendall

All,

I received the following email from Jimmy Heston yesterday evening and wanted to share it with you:

It is with a heavy heart I'm writing to inform you that John Kuykendall went to be with The Lord this afternoon.

John has been ill for many years and we were blessed that we were able to see him at our 50th class reunion. Colleen Clayton has been with John in hospitals in Hot Springs and in Little Rock, Arkansas since January taking care of him with the help of their dear friends in Hot Springs Village, Boyd and Barbara Geisleman and Jim and Avia McGlotchgan. John's son and one of his sisters were also there with him before he passed away.

Thanks so much to Jimmy for sharing this sad news and also for including this picture of John and Colleen at an overlook in Hot Springs Village in October, 2013.

RIP John

The Nashville Sounds at Martinez Social Club

Our classmate Catherine Clay O'Neal sent a recent email letting us know the scheduled dates her husband Winston and his band The Nashville Sounds will be playing at Martinez in 2014.

So far we know they will be there on the following dates (with more to come):

Sunday, August 17th
Sunday, October 26th
Sunday, December 28th

The Nashville Sounds play good Texas honky tonk music and a few of our classmates usually turn out for their appearances at Martinez.

Catherine has promised to keep us posted if any additional dates are added.

Lunch at the Guenther House

Jacque & Judy
looking at the group photo taken at the reunion

Yesterday, Jacqueline Rotan Thornton, Judy Porter Smith, Patty Peairs Miller, Shirley Moore May and myself met for lunch at the Guenther House. Several of us hadn't been able to attend the reunion and it was the first time we had seen each other in more than 50 years.

Guenther House Gathering

It was a lovely lunch and pleasant visit, something we're going to try to do more often in the years to come.

Keep Checking the Pictures Pages!

Don't forget to keep checking the page "More 2013 Photos". As more classmates forward their photos taken at our reunion, I will be adding them to that page.

Yesterday Sybil Adams Holveck forwarded photos that her husband had taken with his cell phone during the reunion which I have now added to that page. Several others have mentioned sending their pictures and I'll also add them there when they do.

More '63 Absentees Check In

Yesterday I received an email from Nanette Chopin Cook who was also unable to attend our 50th Reunion. She and husband Clay Cook who is also a Harlandale graduate are currently in Sierra Vista, Arizona for the winter.

Nanette found several pictures taken at Harlandale Jr. High which I will be adding to our "The Way We Were" page in the near future. She also included the photo of herself at left taken when she recently turned 69 on Halloween as well as the photo below taken on Clay's 68th birthday last year.

I hope Nanette and Clay enjoy a lovely winter in Arizona and are able to attend the next reunion whenever that may be.

P.S.
Clay wanted to add these as well -