Dorothy Lorraine Dlouhy was born one hundred years ago into a world that would change more than anyone could imagine. She overcame many challenges and looked out for her family with love. She…

At the turn of the year from 1973 to 1974, Harold and Marie Sovereign compiled a tape-recorded message for Don and Suzanne, their son and daughter-in-law. A few relatives made guest appearances in…

How quickly a bright light has left us! Our niece Morgan took her last breath while loved ones spontaneously filled her hospital room with song. She lived fully in her thirty-five years with…

This is just for a little fun. Sovereign correspondence Here is a tidbit from my files. In January 1947 my future Aunt Nancy would have been in the third grade and her brother…

We called him Unca Don. I guess my brothers and I were Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Don Sovereign was born in Belding, Michigan the son of Harold and Marie Sovereign. He was Mom’s…

Two years ago we called off the reunion when public gatherings were discouraged and the East Riverside Park was closed. Last year we didn’t send reminder cards because gathering was still considered too…

I posted an article a few months ago that looked back at our ancestors 150 years ago. We didn’t have a Case and Springsteen family reunion this year, but here is a glimpse…

Aden Springsteen and Verda Case were married in the closing weeks of World War I, known then as The Great War. Their wedding also occurred soon after the deadliest outbreak of the 1918…

I finally took Mom back to the Dennis reunion, if only by means of a four-generation picture with her mother Marie Fisher Kidder, grandmother Idell Dennis Fisher, and great-grandmother Rachel Powell Dennis. I…

Verda’s reunion lives on. We had a nice gathering of Grandma Olsen’s great big family on Sunday, continuing a tradition that dates back at least to the 1950s. Edwin and Loretta Case’s family…