Sagers of Dusty attend Flying Farmers convention

Dusty

Art and Colene Sager spent the week of July 17 - 23 at the International Flying Farmers Convention in Calgary. While in the area, they went to the historic, museum style Bar U Ranch where there was a campfire lunch, wagon rides, cookies from a wood burning range, etc. They toured the Banff-Lake Louise area where they rode a gondola to the top of a mountain at Banff. They also had quite an experience crossing the border, especially from Canada to the U.S., in their private plane.

Karen Broeckel was in Polson, Mont., July 26 - 29 for a Mini-South-Hall-Basement-’60-’61-Women of Pacific Lutheran College reunion. Out of six roommates/next door neighbors, four were able to attend the reunion, three with their husbands. Bill and Theona Hasley Waxbom came from New Holland, Pa., Jerry Underline and Arlene Lee Trebesch, Boise; Keith and Carol Menke Tiegs, Spokane and Broeckel, Dusty. It’s been more than 50 years since most of them have seen each other. They had a great weekend catching up, reminiscing, laughing, taking a boat trip around Flathead Lake and were dinner guests of Ron and Eleanor Hasley one evening and attended a community theater performance.

Last Thursday, Linda Hennigar attended a dinner hosted by Al and Goldie Foss at their home in Colfax. Also attending were Norm and Gloria Erickson, Colfax; Gracia Stueckle, Seattle; Dave and Elaine Hogan, Richland, and Uncle Marv and Aunt Dagmar Kirking, Sandpoint. Friday, with the exception of the Fosses, the group went to Glenhaven in Pullman for an early celebration of Altona Wigen’s 96th birthday.

Rueben and Judy Stueckle, Puyallup, were recent guests of his brother and sister-in-law, David and Phyllis Stueckle. They all attended the Stueckle cousins family picnic in Schmuck Park in Colfax.

Lucky and Joan Myrick hosted a family get-together Saturday for the descendants of John Brink.

The cousins are the grandchildren of Otto (Gussie) Brink and Hiram (Lizzie) Brink.

In attendance were Marge Brink, wife of the late Boyd Brink, and their children Linda (Brock) Hill of Palouse; Terry (Terry) Mardin of Prosser; their son Todd and grandson Kai; Steve (Becky) Bink and daughter Kayla of Palouse; Suzanne (Jim) Bryan, Olympia, daughter of Guy and Ollie Grewell; Larry (Di) Brink and Joan (Lucky) Myrick, Dusty, son and daughter of Lloyd (Gertie) Brink, all descendants of Otto Brink.

Descendants of Hiram Brink were Bill Floyd and son Jamie of Davenport, husband and son of Pearle Brink Floyd, Gayle Gearin, and Phyllis Stevenson, daughters of Helene Brink Moerder, both of Portland.

Unable to attend were Gary (Gen) Grewell, Lacey, son of Ollie and Guy Grewell and Ken Brink also of Lacey, and Jon Floyd, Carnation, son of Pearle and Bill Floyd. Ken is the only surviving child of Otto Brink and grandchild of John Brink.

Hiram has no surviving children.

The family enjoyed an afternoon of visiting, catching up and looking at old pictures.

Michah Morgan spent most of last week with grandparents Harm and Jan Smith. He helped Papa move tractors and Nana move dirt. Saturday, he returned home to his parents Gina and Jason Morgan, Yakima.

Saturday, Karen Broeckel, Dusty; Jeanette Nolan, Colfax, and Patty Wieber, Spokane, attended the outdoor wedding of their cousin Debbie Schaal, daughter of Ron Schaal of Winona and Martha Yearout of Soap Lake, to Sarah Baltzell, daughter of Dan Callahan of Denver and Kathy Kondrawski of Everett. The ceremony was performed at Cornerstone Lodge outside Leavenworth. Sarah’s son Tucker was the ring bearer. Approximately 80 guests attended the event. The couple has a home in Everett.