Saturday, September 28, 2019

Taylor Reunion! By Pat Kinsella Herdeg




Taylor Flag


The third Sunday in September is always the Taylor Reunion, and often (quite often) it is cold and rainy for our celebration. Not this year!

 Aaron, Bridget and Alex

Sunny and temperatures in the 80’s, our pavilion on Cayuga Lake overlooking the sandy beach was the perfect setting. While some of the kids swam, and many of us waded, we gathered with various groups of cousins and caught up on our lives.

Bridget, Aunt CB, Mary


It was our first reunion without Uncle Jack, or Chuck Lochner. They were sorely missed AND remembered.

 Chuck Lochner

 Ted and Rick Lochner

As always, we had a LOT of food, and tables of desserts to keep us going. And, this year, we reached out to Mom’s Baker side. We were very happy that Joyce Tillotson Henderson (wife of Wendell of Center Lisle) and her daughter Kathleen could join us this year. 



 Joyce Henderson and Aunt CB

This year, my sister Sue and others joined in to create a Taylor Baker History Challenge. What fun we all had answering various questions! With categories like Military Service (we got more information on which of our relatives had served in various branches of the military and when), Family Homes and Gatherings (which fruit was a staple at reunions—watermelons!), Fascinating Achievements, Jobs (who jumped trains and hung out in hobo camps in his younger years—Adin Baker) and ‘Your Had to See it to Believe It’(As Tim, our MC told us, ‘These are ALL Lochner escapades!), it was a rousing back and forth between the cousins! Sue Kinsella will compile the answers and send it out to cousins for all to keep.

 Kathy and Charlie

 Pat and Cyndi


 Kathy and Rose --
Someone's got to Get the Kitchen Work Done!
What a wonderful mix of people, stories, laughter, weather, food and hugs! Next year, many more cousins?! See you next September.

 Dan, Chris, Tim, Tom Kinsella
Pat, Aunt CB, Sue

 HOW to answer THAT question!

 Richard and David

 Anna and David


 Rick and Laurie
P.S. Many Many Many thanks to Charlie Hawkes and Anna Bresovski for all of these pictures.

1 comment:

Julie (Lochner) Riber said...

Great pictures. I can't wait to see more and hear more. That was wonderful that Joyce Henderson could come. I'm looking forward to Susan's rundown of the Taylor Jeopardy game. Love all my cousins so much and hated missing the big event this year.