June 2000
This monthly newsletter has turned into an occasional one. Not by design, but by life getting in the way. What were to have been quiet winter months working on the web site turned into an unreal time of illness and sorrow, as my dad, Ron Newquist, succumbed to lung cancer. He was diagnosed in November and died January 7, 2000. We have spent the subsequent months putting one foot in front of the other and trying to move ahead with life.This Memorial Day--celebrated on May 29, which would have been my parents' 45th anniversary--was particularly hard. In my family, it is tradition to visit the graves of our relatives on Memorial Day, and this year we made no exception. It wasn't easy, though, stopping by my father's plot, a grave still new enough that it is without a tombstone and the sod is freshly placed. My sister dug an area where the tombstone will be, and she and my mother planted flowers. So did my uncle Tom Newquist, who, we discovered, remembers many Newquist family members in area cemetaries by planting a geranium on each grave.
We stopped by the graves of John and Jennie Newquist, and I vowed once again to solve the mystery of Jennie's tombstone, which reads "Anna Jane Newquist." Does anyone out there have a clue as to why it says Anna Jane, when she called herself Genevieve or Jennie? If so, let me know! Drop me a line at [email protected].
And I promise to get back to updating this site with more historical knowledge and current news.
Til next time. . .
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cousins at the 1999 Newquist family reunion |
