Farewell to "Boo" tiful Nauvoo

Departing missionaries gather for one last feast at Hotel Nauvoo and honor Kyle and Jill Franklin who have provided most of the pictures, Pioneer Stories, e-mail communications and computer "tech" help for our missionary group--truly generous, talented and bright couple!

 Open House at Annies before the "Pumpkin Walk". Jill, Carol, Annie and Marsha

 Samples of the 500 pumpkins lining the streets of "Boo-tiful" Nauvoo. John and I carved a few, but these were the ones done by experts.

GOING HOME! Don't cry because it's over--SMILE because it happened!

 Our Autumn Social--Hearts Knit Together in Love--with Blairs and Rutowskis

 My wonderful Temple Choir--we sang "In This Very Room"

Our "resident" artist, Harry Heil,  painted a different site in watercolor for all 60 missionary couples

 Last dinner at Chuongs Garden--Chinese--with Douglases,  Holbrooks and Hodges

Marion--who assisted me at the Nauvoo Post Office for the past 18 months as I sent off Box #9

Look Who Showed up in Nauvoo!

What a surprise that Steve Zoschke just happened to walk into our session at the temple yesterday. Their truck route (they team drive) passed through Nauvoo so they came to the temple. Sherry had been driving and was too tired to come to dinner but we had a nice chat with Steve. He and I sang in the So. Calif. Mormon Choir together so we enjoyed "catching up".

 My last haircut with Robert

 Harry Heil does a watercolor for those who leave early

 Gathering to once again sing "God Be With You"...

as Elder and Sister Crapo from Alberta, Canada say good-bye.

Addendum to our Detroit trip

 Better picture of the speedometer

 This picture has Uncle Ed in it--They look pretty good for 86!

Another beautiful Fall tree

Trip to Detroit Oct. 3-7

 So much for our "allotted" mileage of 45,000

 Look what we found in Michigan! Not the same as we remember in Pasadena in the 50s

 Uncle Bob Domm, Sharon Bazner (cousin) Aunts Mary Lou Domm and  Bea Vergeldt (my dad's sisters)

The color in Michigan was breathtaking--this tree was in a cemetery in Romeo 

where we visited my old homestead

"God Be With You Til We Meet Again"--Farewell to the Wrays

 It has become customary to provide a box with farewell cards from all of us--

made with love by Susan Cottrell

 Here we are singing a fond farewell

The Wrays--we will miss them