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Our Blaker Family
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Anderson ~ Bennett ~
Benitez ~ Bingham
~ Black ~ Blaker ~ Brown
~ Buckley ~ Bunnell
~ Burwell
~ Chek ~ Cseh ~ Cogswell ~ Crabtree
~ Crawshaw ~ Critchfield ~ Darrough
~ Devine
~ Englehaut
~ Garwood ~ Gehr ~ Grow
~ Hoschouer ~ McArthur ~ McMurtrie ~ Millen
~ Newberry
~ Herrington ~ Hickcox ~ Hutchinson ~ Madison ~
Madison ~ March ~ Robinson ~ Peden ~ Monroe ~
Pruett ~ Piet~ Rodriguez ~ Stice ~ Sutcliffe ~ Warren Our
families come from Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia and dates back
to 1895 in Kansas. We also
came from Austria, Ireland, Scotland, Hungary,
Germany, and England. Traditionally, the last name can tell a lot about
your heritage. The last name often
told where you came from and the class of your family. We haven’t kept that tradition; and so it
isn’t as easy to tell much about a person from their last name these days. |
My Forever
Family I found my forever family in Betty and Ivan Blaker. They let me move in on a “trial basis” and
gave me the stability, guidance and the love parents
are suppose to give to their children.
For the first time in my life, I actually felt like I belonged where I
was. I was finally part of a forever
family. Betty and Ivan showed me what
a family is suppose to be like. They showed me how to become part of a
family and learn to relax and enjoy the love it had to offer. I learned my parenting skills and even my
grand-parenting skills from them. I
will be forever grateful for the guidance and love they gave to a lost little
girl. I had always longed for a “forever family” that would love me
for “me” and meet my needs and be my “parents” ever since I was a little
girl. I had moved around all my life,
not quite fitting in anywhere I lived, but I was really trying to find
someplace that I could really belong.
Ivan took the honors of “giving me away” on my wedding day. He shared his birthday with my oldest
daughter and always made her feel so special that they had the very same
birthday. Betty babysat the girls when
they were little and I worked. They
accepted me into their family as if I had been born into it. They always treated my girls as their
granddaughters. Their parents were the
first grandparents that I could remember having and they treated me as if I
had always been a member of their family too. Up until just a few years ago,
my daughters thought that Betty and Ivan were my real parents. I never spoke
much of my past before then. All they
knew is that Betty and Ivan were my parents and their grandparents. They were
sad when someone said they weren’t their real grandparents and couldn’t
believe that they weren’t their “real grandparents”. “Oh, don’t ever let your Grandpa hear you
say that, it would break his heart.”
They always have been and always will be my girls real
grandparents!! They taught me to
embrace holidays and enjoy every minute of them. They gave me the first birthday party I can
remember. They never missed a single
school play or musical that my girls were in.
They always had something special for the girls for Easter and Valentines day. They are my “forever parents” and the
best “forever family” anyone could ever possibly wish for! Before we really knew that Betty had
Alzheimer’s; and while she was still coherent she told me that she and Ivan
couldn’t love me anymore if I had been born to them and that she felt blessed
to have me as her daughter and that she felt I was her real daughter. And, I told her I was the one who was
blessed to have such wonderful parents!
And, I felt like they were my real parents They were truly sole mates and Dad is such a romantic! I cherish the memories that they gave to my
family and will be forever grateful for their wonderful love.
i. Fredrick “Fred”
(B. Aug 2, 1904)
i. Arvin Reed (B. Dec
3, 1935)
ii. Ivan Loyd (B. Sept 18, 1930)
i. Laura
ii. Susan
iii. Deborah (foster
daughter-although I haven’t been called “foster” since the early 70’s) Deborah Jean met xxxxxxx while
home on leave from the U.S. Navy. They were married at United Methodist
Church. The Reverend Dellenbaugh proceeded
the ceremony. They had some very good
years together. Children: o
Jennifer married Jeremy ·
Megan ·
Jimmy o
Gayle married Larry (divorced); later married Eduardo (divorced) ·
Lacy ·
Christopher ·
Alexis ·
Madison o
Jamie married Kevin ·
Kevin ·
Novalie ·
Christian Our
Family loves to make memories together and save them in our hearts forever Photographs are a
way to capture memories and save them in our hearts, so we can bring those
memories alive forever. Photos give
you a peek into yesterday. They are of
times gone by. They bring back
memories, some good some we wish we could forget. But, they are all memories; which do help
us remember our past so that we can live in the present and work to a better
future for tomorrow. Preserving Memories of family times forever Family
Photos
See
more at Bingham Family Reunions or Bessie Orpha
Madison or Grandma Bessie’s Recipes “Two are
better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of
them falls down, the other can help him up… Two people
can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope
made of three cords is hard to break.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Life is all About Choices Created and Designed by Deborah Jean Copyright: Deborah 2000 Last updated: May 2015 |
SURNAMES My
Mother’s Bennett Bunnell Englephaut Garwood Gehr Madison Robinson Pedan My Father’s Spouse’s Mother Buckley Hickcox Hutchinson Madison Monroe Rigney Spouse’s Father Black Garwood March Pruett Piet Extended Buzzi Benitez Critchfield Sutcliffe Rodriguez Hayes Railsback Stout Tatro |