Family history and events
Our Annual Family Reunion in Shippensburg, PA – Saturday June 8, 2019 OUR MATRIARCH Mom sang nine or ten tunes, including “Oh What a Beautiful Morning,””Take Me Out To The Ball Game,”and one she wrote after James was born titled, “What Happened?” BACK UP Mom‘s grandson, Brandon, and son, Michael, both powerful […]
Our Annual Family Potluck Reunion in Shippensburg, PA – Saturday June 9, 2018 EARLY MEET AND GREET Maggie and Brian drove from Maryland and stopped by Shippensburg Health Care Center (SHCC) to spend a little time with Brian‘s Aunt Janice before heading over to the reunion. Mom had one older sister, Jeanette, who passed in
Our Annual Family Potluck in Shippensburg, PA MOM AND DAD This year Camille‘s mom is 85 and her dad is 91. Both are still getting around. Dad enjoys a chat with his granddaughter Theresa. THE SPREAD Always abundant and delicious! While the kids focus on the dessert table, the brothers and sisters
Emily wed Tyler on September 2nd, 2016 to the delight of one hundred well wishers – friends and family from near and far. TYLER AND EMILY Man and Wife! It seemed cruel to make you wait, so we put this picture first. LONE HAWK FARM Roll back five or six hours. The
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Each year we get as many family members as possible into the community room at the apartment building where mother Janice lives in Shippensburg. For the first time in thirty years, we got all six siblings together. John senior turned 90 in 2016, so this may well be the last complete family portrait. Oldest to youngest
Aunt Jeanette‘s Memorial August 23, 2014 A celebration of Family and Life Our Dear Aunt Jeanette, Janice‘s older sister passed away at the age of 89 on August 19, 2014 four months shy of her ninetieth birthday on December 18th. The Memorial Service was held at Covenant United Methodist Church in Montgomery Village, Maryland just
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Happy 40th Birthday, Jamie! July 11, 2005 With Love, from Camille and Bob Today we celebrate Jim‘s 40th birthday and take the opportunity to thank him for being a stabilizing force within our family – bridging the gap between generations and states. You know, it‘s funny – James, who of the 6 Illo kids
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James and Kathryn “Tie the Knot”- December 30, 2005 THE CHURCH All decked out for the grand event! THE GROOM Flanked here by his father and brother, James waits for his bride to make her appearance. THE BRIDE In all her splendor and on the arm of her brother, Fritz. MOTHER
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James is the last of Frank and Helen‘s eight grandchildren, the youngest of John and Janice‘s six children. James was inconceivably cute as a baby! James at Darla‘s parent‘s house with John, Darla and Robert. > All five sons in Darla‘s family‘s home from youngest to oldest – James, Mike, Joe,
Artist, musician, father, uncle and champion of the underdog Michael was born November 27, 1963 in New Jersey, five days after the assassination of President Kennedy. Mom reports he was a happy baby who was so mesmerized by the activities of his older siblings that he did not cry. When he was seven, the
