Cole Family Reunion: June 2010

Dana Reunion 2010 part 1

Every reunion has to begin with a good card game. Panguitch Rummy! What is Aaron eating?

Its a real great Uncle who will take you fishing...Seth and Allen
2600 sheep came to visit...too exciting!
I tried to organize this post but here is one of our marshmallow roasts with Jeff in charge.

Tanner enjoying!


Aaron whittled but don't think we ever figured out what it was that he made.


Ellie and Dana posing, future super models for sure.
We must be saying goodbye cause Kate looks ready to cry. She is our tender heart, doesn't like leaving.
Light sabers, fun for the boys.
I think this is the only picture I have of Jessica
Dionne and girls with cute hairdos
Dionne is our craft woman. We made stamped washer necklaces, dog tags and dutch oven tags.

Jeff and Chase at the lake
Ruth, Tanner, Megan and Jessica sitting on the dam. When I was there a month earlier, the water was pouring over the top.
Colin with a perfect roast.
Caught a tiny chipmunk. Who let it go?

Kate, Dennis and Ellie
Chase Allen and Paige

Dana Reunion 2010

So I guess I exceeded the amount of pictures I can post and how did I underline all the text? I am still learning. So on Tuesday, I had arranged with Lance to bring up a horse for the kids to ride. What a man he is. We all thought he was just like Uncle Reid, loving and kind. After all the kids had ridden Kate still was not going to ride. With Jeff forcing her and lifting her up to Lance she was finally in the saddle but still not too happy. How did we go from that to her wanting him to come back the next day? Love that she wanted to do it again.




Our favorite meal is always the dutch oven dinner prepared by Dennis and of course the kids love the fire and roasting marshmellos an making smores.




Dana decided she had eaten enough and began to play with hers. The result!

Boys love to shoot. Here they are using bb guns and then they went up the canyon to use the big guns.

The trip to Henrie's drivein is always a must. We won't show what everyone ate!1
For our reunion tshirts this year we spray dyed and had a great time being creative.

Courtney and Ruth. Just relaxing..... and so is Allen......Allen.....?

Gotta have a dog to love. Funny but Chase was way afraid of Sunny the whole time.

Dana's June Cabin trip

We just returned from a week at the cabin.

I took a little trip to Panguitch to visit friends and it turns out that everyone was at the funeral of Tom Proctor, Merle Stowell's brother. So I drove out to the cemetary and took a photo of Mom and Dad's headstone with her information engraved. What a beautiful day and week, everything was so green and lush. The lake is so full it is running over the top of the dam. I had to tell mom about that. She would be so thrilled. That was something she always want to do was to see how full the lake was.


We had a frequent visitor night and morning about 7 along with the deer. The night these pictures were taken she came with 5 deer and kept interacting with one of the deer. It was so fun. I hope no one harms it, I am told by a former Forester, Fred Houston that it is probably a hen and they do not taste good to eat. He said to listen early in the morning for the gobbles and noises that chicks would make and they are probably nested in a tree. He said that Toms have a beard in the middle of their chest so he thought this was a hen. Hope you all get to see it. Jim says he has seen more than one at a time.



While we were there we made a side trip to Orderville. I had already read 4 books and "needed" to get out.
This first picture is a model of the way the town was set up during the United Order. The big building in the center is the mess hall where everyone took their meals. The long ones are the residences the families lived in. The woman who runs the store attached to this building was so nice and it turns out is married to one of our cousins through James Brinkerhoff. Actually only a half cousin since James was a polygamist and they were from another mother. Her sister came and brought a book that she had put together. She is also married to another cousin as was another woman who showed up. We sat in their restaurant and visited for almost an hour. I think we are probably related to everyone in that valley.

Great-grandfather Kocherhans (Grandma Reid's father) was also there during this time and Grandma Loretta B. Young and Mary K. Reid were both children there at this time. They were the same age and I have a picture of them with me when I was a newborn.

This picture is of the woolen mill. I suspect that this is where Grandpa Kocherhans worked. That is what he did for a living prior to this and probably why he was called to go there. Remember the story about the boy who saved lambs tails to get money to buy some "city" pants. I bought a book written by one of the ladies that we visited with that I will leave at the cabin so everyone can see it.

I went to the valley to look for gravesites of relatives and I did find the headstone of James Brinkerhoff. The information I got from one relative on the phone was that he is actually buried outside the fence (in the weeds) of the very small cemetary. There are like 4 cemetaries in Glendale, Ut.

Veda Miller Young November 26, 1994

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Veteran's Day

Since today is Veteran's Day, I wanted to post something relevant.  I thought of my Grandpa Woodrow Wilson Young who was in the US Navy during World War II.  The last few times I saw him before he passed away just after Spencer was born in 1991, he told Allen and me the same story each time we saw him.  I will do my best to remember it and post it here.  If you know more about it than me, please comment and I will add to it.  I can't remember what kind of ship or where his tour was.

When Grandpa was serving in the Navy, he was on a ship and they asked if any of the men were barbers.  Grandpa figured there were less desirable jobs than being a barber, so he volunteered.  Pretty soon they had all the men lined up behind several barbers who were giving them crew cuts.  An officer noticed that Grandpa was not as fast as the other barbers, because he was doing a better job and leaving the hair a bit longer than the others.  Pretty soon most of the men noticed as well and lined up for a haircut from him.  The officer in charge told Grandpa to cut faster and he told him he wouldn't because the only haircut he was going to give was a good haircut.  Grandma Young later told me that Grandpa made really good tips from his haircuts which he would send home to her and she was able to save a nice nest egg.

Cabin Video circa 1981

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