88th Birthday & Reunion
21 February 1999 - Dolly Barr submitted a little bit of HURT family history. Do you have any stories that you would like to share?
Dolly, her brother, sisters and families had a wonderful time at their "Mother's 88th Birthday party" last weekend in Elk City, Oklahoma at the Holidome.
What a great time to celebrate and record family histories. AND . . . Don't forget to bring the camera, notebooks, recorder, and especially the microphone (if needed) and film for the camera. I've been known to forget to load the camera and check batteries in the tape recorder. Maybe you can learn from my mistakes.
Anyway! After their meal on Saturday night, Dolly and her sisters visited with their mother about her mother and family histories. They had so much fun, laughing until they cried. As one sister was taking notes, another sister thought she was recording it all on her large tape recorder. Little did she know that she needed a microphone. Most tape recorders nowadays have built-in mikes.
You could hear her later proclaim, "After I returned home, I found that the large tape recorder I was using needed an external microphone. I was not taking notes very carefully, thinking I could transcribe it from the tape. Boy, was I disappointed."
Dolly mentioned that her mother has a sister who is soon to be 90 years-old.
Of course, they have heard the story before . . . BUT they are not sure how many more times they will have an opportunity to hear it.
Dolly says, "Seems like there are different little details each time. What I do know is that my grandparents, Sam Kachel and Mary Hurt Kachel ended up being cousins from inter-marriage among family members. The older generation (after mates left) married after a younger generation had married."
There is to be a "Family Reunion" of the family of Mary Hurt Kachel's father who left and went to Canada; married the French woman and had another large family. Dolly's grandmother was the oldest of 21 children of that man. The details are sketchy for this writer with only the knowledge that it is in September in Nebraska.
Dolly states, "I think that this is the 'other side' of the family to most of you if our common link is Barbara Carrie Hurt. It is her husband (Bukowski) that left and went to Canada. That family of 11 children have been in contact, for years, with the other family down here. Some of them live in Ponca City and some have come from Canada and visited my mother."
Don't forget to sit down with your family today and pass along some family history and stories while you can.
Thanks to Dolly Barr for sharing some of her family stories with us.
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