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Kinsler Family Reunion will be on the following website by this weekend: www.kinslergroup.com TIPTON**** 2014**** BROWN FAMILY REUNION Saturday, August 16, 2014 Seven Lakes State Park 14390 Fish Lake Rd Holly, Michigan 48442 Big 7 North Pavilion HUDDLESTON REUNION SUMMER 2014

Alberta Downer Towns was honored on her 104th birthday Friday, February 14, with special visitors and a family celebration. Mrs. Towns was born in Wilkes County on February 14, 1910, to Sally and Albert Downer, one of ten children, five boys and five girls. She and her sister, Annie Laura Downer Porter of Atlanta, are the only surviving siblings. Mrs. Towns is the mother of seven children, Joe Lewis Towns of Washington, Fred Towns of Washington, D.C., and Evelina Johnson of Buffalo, N.Y.; also, Moses Towns, Leonard Towns, Jeroline Towns, and Annie Pearl Towns, who are deceased. On her birthday Mrs. Towns had a surprise visit from Flint Hill Baptist Church deacons, Tom Richards and Bobby Hill. Mrs. Towns was honored on Saturday, February 15, with a birthday celebration at her home given by her family. For this occasion Mrs. Towns wore a lace gold and white flowered scarf, a pink necklace, and silver bracelets to accent her black pants suit. Mrs. Towns’ grandson-in-law, Rev. O...

Clinton Wingfield finished high school in 2001 at age 77. At 81 years old he was getting ready to enroll at Georgia Perimeter College to study computers, but it wasn't to be. On July 5, a month before class began at the Decatur Campus on Panthersville Road, Wingfield, who lived in Decatur with Eutha, his wife of 27 years, died at DeKalb Medical Center. His wife said he was really excited about going to GPC. "He just wanted to do that," she said. "He told me that when he learned how to use computers he was going to teach me. But he didn't want me to tell anyone that he was going to college. He wanted to surprise them when he graduated." During the application process, Wingfield, a retired General Motors lineman, made such an impression on the admissions team, the college wanted to commemorate his efforts. On Sept. 13, they invited his widow to the college and presented her with a framed copy of his acceptance letter. Decatur Campus Provost Felita Williams sa...

July Anniversaries, Birthdays, Celebrations!!! 1 Melvin Smith   Katresha Hughley   Dennis Dottin   Linda Pharr 2 Demarco Hughley's mom 5 Kevin Alexander 6 Caron Sloan 7 Luckie Daniels 11 Ronald and Reginald Wynn 12 Savon Pelt 16 Ekemini Nsentip (Kemi) 17 Darrius Cade 19 Judy Murphy 21 Randy Ware 26 Clark Jones Jr.  27 Bridgette Boykin 29 Antoinette Webb

JUNE BIRTHDAYS & CELEBRATIONS Date Name 3-Jun Ara Viverette 4-Jun Mario Shannon & Jamarl Clark 5-Jun Kristian Sales & Nicole Williams 7-Jun Barrett Hanson 8-Jun Destiny Jones 12-Jun Jessie Webb,Michael Starks, Alfrieda Sanders & Lida Berry 15-Jun Lawrence Brown 16-Jun Me 17-Jun Jerrold Webb 20-Jun Bisi Smith & Beverly Tolbert none none

Please join us in celebrating our 2014 graduates Cousin Danyelle Pouncil just received her bachelors from Eastern Michigan! Congratulations! Our latest graduate is cousin Adriane Webb, congratulations Adriane! Shay Shay Jones and Bobby Young III. We are proud of you and wish you the best of luck in all of your endeavors. If we have missed anyone let us know so we can update!

We are so excited! We have found more family in our own hometown! Recently, Jemal has taken a dna test for ancestry.com to trace back his portion of our tree, and we struck gold!! While our results have previously have gotten us links to present day relatives, nice ones at that, the links have only gotten us as close to 4th- 6th cousins. Which is great but isn't the easiest place to trace our lineage due to the lack of records of people of color before 1870.  However, our latest link has led to a second/third cousin.  Which if you know one of your parent's cousins or your cousin's children (its around the same thing). This discovery is especially exciting because we could most probably narrow our link down but he also had a tree with the surnames that gave us a better idea of how we were related. The list gave us 2 names and one of them led to finding my mother in laws grandfather and his siblings. This is exciting news because my mother in law never got to meet her...