Looks like I hard about this a little too late for anyone else to get there. But I can still help share the stories and pictures of the event. Anyone with news or pictures from the Branson gathering, send me an Email and I will let you know how to get them to me. I know some new tricks for sending files.
: Joseph
I just got this news in from Elsie Minchey:
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Subject: Re: Silver Dollar City
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:35:53 -0500
From: Elsie Minchey
To: Joseph William Carpenter
Hello Joseph,
We just returned from Branson. Robert Arnold and Dorothy had a 65th wedding anniversary last Saturday. [Aug. 4th]
Bobby (Robert's son) and Steve Fausler (Frances son) own the Southern Oaks Inn in Branson, Mo and we filled the ground floor plus a few on the lower level. We used the Garden Room as a gathering place and there was [always] someone there to visit. The children enjoyed the indoor pool. Milton and Beverly, their two adult daughters and a son-in-law and four children were there. Joanna Neal Rask (Wilson's daughter) and husband and 3 of their children were there. All of the Neal brothers and spouses and Frances were there.
There was plenty of entertainment in Branson so we had things to do besides visiting. A group of about 20 went out to eat across the street Friday night. Billy and LaNelle's two adult sons were there with wives. My brother, George and his wife Margaret were there; My sister Margaret and her husband Bruce and grand daughter, Krista, went too.
Of course Robert's two sons, Dick and Bobby were the hosts and their wives and children were there. Steve Fausler and wife, Sue, and three children were there. Jimmy, J. J., and Kaitlin. This is a beginning of the list and I can improve it later.
If I had known, I would have passed the word along so others could have joined us.
It was a fun time. Except Branson is not an easy place to get there. Some of the Pearsall group Iven and Ruby; Wilson,; James and son, Charles Arnold,; Billy's son, Larry and wife, Linda; Billy's other son, Howard and wife; flew to Tulsa, Okla. and rented a car for a 2 hour drive. It is a 10 - 12 hour drive for us.
We will try to send some pictures. Joanna is experienced at e-mailing photos. Maybe this would be a good time for me to learn ! Maybe this would be a good idea for the next Carpenter Reunion. Choose a destination that accessible and some of us could fly and there would be other entertainment for the younger generation.
I will forward this along to others and maybe between us we can get you some info. and if this ever reoccurs, we will get you advance information.
Elsie
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