Planning a Family Reunion

Due to Aunt Sister's failing health, I decided we needed a Head Family Reunion, to be held as soon as possible.  Wanted to wait til Fall, when cooler and we could all go to my beloved Cameron Park for a get-together. However, I am not sure Aunt Sister will still be here by then... so we are going to have an air-conditioned fellowship hall of a wonderful church as our gathering place.  How we found this great little church is a story in itself. When I and my classmates of the Waco High Class of 1964 had our 40th Reunion in 2004, I was the Chairman of the Planning Committee (that was work and fun!). After the reunion, we decided that some of us wanted to stay in touch, so I have the e-mail addresses of over 90 classmates , and we keep in touch. We try to meet at least twice a year for a mini-reunion, with any classmates attending that can happen to make it. This is such fun, as we sometimes meet every month to celebrate classmate birthdays, a Birthday Bash, if you will...even if the birthday boys and girls cannot make it....a lot of fun, as different classmates attend, as well as the handful of regulars from Waco. We were to meet at Cameron Park for our Spring Mini-Reunion last May, but the F-2 tornado that hit Waco blew through the night before. Shirley McDonald Fuller, one of our classmates, had offered the fellowship hall of her church in case of bad weather, so we took her up on the offer. It was so nice that I wanted to have a family reunion there one day. Hopefully, we will get to see a lot of family that don't get to see often..usually only see them at funerals or weddings. David Allen Head and his wife, Pat, plan to come in from the Houston area. His sister, Sally Head Temple, my first cousin also, lives here in Waco, and she and her son, Parker Lockhart, and grandson Jake Lockhart, plan to come. I hope her daughter Carol and family can attend also. My little brother, Charles Lee (Charlie)  Head, and his family plan to be there, too. Carolyn Head Kline and her husband, Jerry, may be in Colorado then, but Pereugene (Perry) Head and his wife, Phyliss, may make it. Uncle Frank Curre ( married to my daddy's baby sister, Aunt Toots, who died in 1994 about six months after my mother, Marie, died) is a true Head family member.  He and many of his large family plan to be there. (His daughters, Linda and Peggy, are two of my beloved cousins that I grew up with.) My sister, Sue Head Lee, will be there. Her son, Robbie Wooten, will be at a bass tournament that day, so he and wife, Brenda, and their three children will have to come to the next one. Sue's daughter, Amy Wooten Warren, and hubby, Chad, and family plan to attend if possible...so much going on for the younger set ..vacation time and school starts in a few weeks.   My daughter, Jon Marie Powell Russman, and her hubby, Nick, and her son, Noah Ross Johnson (Ross)  plan to be there..also, my son, Jimmy Powell, wife, Esther, and the girls and the new baby boy...also, my son, Bobby Powell, wife, Spring, and their two children are to come, if the boys can get off work......there could be about twenty-five people or there could be close to fifty....just have to wait and see who shows up! It was such a hurry-up idea to have it, a lot of the family already had other plans that could not be changed. Aunt Sister wants to come, if only for a little while, and if she feels up to it. One thing for sure is that we will have a great time just being together and reminiscing, though it will be sad and bittersweet, knowing that this will probably be the last time many of us will see Aunt Sister alive.