Reunions
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Together again
Verda’s great big family will gather again after missing the last three years. We hope many of you can join us at the gazebo in Belding. We’ve got a lot of catching up…
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Verda’s reunion is on!
Verda Case Springsteen Olsen was gathering her clan for reunions back in the 1950s. After a hiatus in the past few years her family tradition is alive again. Margaret Cranmer has reserved the…
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Memories of Verda’s reunions
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…
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More recent memories
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…
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A different reunion
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…
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Back to the Dennis reunion
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…
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A brief reunion remembrance
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…
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Reunion time again
Verda Olsen’s great big family will be gathering again for a pot-luck reunion on the last Sunday afternoon in July. As we have for many years now, we’ll be under the gazebo at…
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Carrying on
Members of Verda Case Springsteen Olsen’s family shared a bit of time together again on Sunday at our annual family reunion in Belding. We missed many who have been among us in the…
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Plan now for the Case and Springsteen reunion
Verda Case Springsteen Olsen started an annual gathering of the clan in the 1950s if not before. This year, for the first time, none of her sons and daughters are with us in…