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just wanted to wish everyone a very merry christmas, and the happiest of new years. This past year has been one of the best of my life, and hopefully it has been for everyone else. my grndkids are loving it, northwest Indiana has up to 31 inches of snow, and thursday morning it was 12 below zero, no thaw in site, so we will most definatly have a white christmas. MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

12/20/10 03:34 PM

#23

Dear Classmates 12-20-10

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year and good health in the up coming years. Jon & Toby Roesti

10/17/11 08:18 AM

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Marianna Bolley (Sadowski)

I hope everyone is going to respond to the 70th birthday party. Please, please EVERYONE make some comments!!!!!! Other classes have done this with great success. We need more writing comments on the web site. We can tell people are here looking at old news and seeing if anyone is telling new stories, so please give us news (good, bad, funny, sad, happy, strange, weird, outstanding, stupid, political, religeous, debatable, SOMETHING PLEASE.) Let's keep this web site going. No respond - No website???

Thanks, Judy

10/31/11 07:44 PM

#25

Doug Davis

One of the neat things about last years' 50th class reunion is that we have this great web site set up by Jim Warncke that we are able to log in and contribute to. Without it the reunion probably wouldn't have been as sucssesful as it was. Thanks Jim. Since then, every once in a while, I'll log on to see if anybody has contributed anything and have found nothing. I'm just as guilty. The original reunion committee has decided to keep the website going for another year mainly to develop plans to have a 70th birthday party for next Sept. or Oct. We're wondering how everyone feels about this so give us some input. We'll all be turning 70 next year so lets celebrate with a party. Sound like fun? Plans are just getting started so let's hear from you. Doug

12/10/11 07:11 AM

#26

December 10, 2011

70th Birthday Party???? We can't POSSIBLY be turning 70 already, .....can we? Lordy, that should make me feel old, but some days I feel like I might be approaching 90! ha! However, there's a part of me that still thinks we're all just like we were in 1960. I have really enjoyed touching base with some of our classmates on Facebook.....it's fun to chit chat and see current pictures of everyone. One of the things that struck me as kinda funny at the reunion last year was that many of our voices are about the same......not necessarily for singing, I might add (at least for me!), but sometimes when I heard bits of conversation in the background, I could tell who it was by the voice. 'Course, then it's sometimes a little shock to see a white head or a bald one that goes with the voice! hee hee!

I am grateful this website is still going.....and think a 70th Birthday Party would be fun!

Merry Christmas to all, and I wish you all a very Happy New Year too.

Marianna Bolley Sadowski

12/18/11 07:35 PM

#27

2011 has been a good year for me, had my first vacation in several years, did my sons job for 10 days while his family went on vacation, learned I am going to be a greatgrandfather for the second time, and my entire family has been healthy. good year.

Judy Stykeman sugested a 70th birthday get together next summer sometime. I was wondering if anyone would consider a picnic, just a thought, Defiance has several nice parks.

Here is wishing everyone a blessed and MERRY CHRISTMAS, and a very healthy, prosperise, and happy NEW YEAR take care and be well Gene

12/25/11 09:27 PM

#28

Merry Christmas to all and a very happy healthy new year. Thanks Gene for your respond, hope we hear from all of you. We are paying for this site so please write some news. I'm now at Big Pine Key Florida until April and would love to see anyone who would be in the area. Last year Connie Bishop Schatz stopped by and we had lots of fun chatting. Hope to hear from all of you soon.

01/02/12 07:21 AM

#29

Happy New Year!!!!!!!
Suggested and requested new years resolution. Post something on our class website. Okay everyone??????

The following checked in December for new news but did't find anything, also never posted anything. Come on, please, we would love to hear from you. I hope I'm not being a pest, because I think you are all great.
Roesti, Brown, Schaufele, Boes, Davis, Reineke, Oder, Browns, Knoll, Wasnich, Warncke, Stone, Bishop, Feeney,Moser, Parker, Warnimont, Black, Chase, Schmunk, Vogel, Dunbar, Bolley, Holcomb, Duerk, McBride, Burkhart,
Shock, Wolff. Lets see how many of you respond and take this resolution serious. Thanks, The committee

01/12/12 07:13 PM

#30

Linda Hohenbrink (Bernicke)

Judy, I think everybody must be in hiberation now that winter has finally arrived in the north.

Our first snow today, predicted to be 1 to 3 in. in northern Indiana, so far 1/2 inch.

04/02/12 05:04 PM

#31

I wanted everyone to know that Joannie Beverson Chopin passed away in the middle of March 2012 . She had her family at her bedside.

Linda Hohenbrink Bernicke

07/20/12 08:12 AM

#32

Hi Everyone - Had a 70th birthday party committee meeting last night. Good turn out!! Thanks all for your food donations and willingness to work. The party is coming together great, so far 30 classmates have responded. If you would like to know who they are go to the top on the list on the right CLASSMATE PROFILES and the click on attending 70TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. It will give you a list of just the classmate, so far around 30, At this point with spouses and guest we're planning on approx 75 people. If you have time please register so we'll have enough food. Tom Callan is heading up a golf outing on Saturday, if interested let him know SOON.

COME ON LOCAL CLASSMATES, PLEASE SIGN UP!!!!!!! Can't wait to visit with everyone. Thanks Judy

09/09/12 10:10 AM

#33

At age 70 how stupid can a guy get? I knew on Sept. 8th I had something to do this was an important date. We had been asked to go to Napoleon to the car show and flea market. I just knew i had other plans for that day, so we declined. Then I saw in the paper their was a 5K run. Well I knew that was out. Then on the bulletin Board at Eagle's Club was posted Military Day at Defiance Historical society. Thats it- yep I was schedule to set up a World War 2 display for the event.

So on the seventh september I load my truck with 2 folding tables a couple chair's and our 10x12 easy up. Table covers and a half dozen other items. Then for the display I select 31 WW2 items from my collection. Boy I'm all set now. ready to go. I knew September 8th was an important date. Except for one thing, there's an auction that day and I want to bid on something that's there. No problem I asked my dear wife to go to the auction and bid on it for me. She doesn't feel good she has a head cold, but says she will go to the auction for me anyway, Bless her heart.

September 8th the important DATE. I'm awake at 4-15am its raining out. I get up wake my wife up. Fix us each a cup of coffee. Turn the TV to the weather station and find out the rain is to stop.And it's going to be a beautiful day. Good I can go on with my plans. 6am I tell my wife I'm going to leave. She says your not to be out there till 8am. Your worse than a little kid waiting to open up christmas presents.

I tell her I'm going to TOM's Donuts to have a coffee and roll then go out and set up my display. I remind her again of the auction. As I'm walking out the door she say's by the way honey HAPPY anniversary our 45th. O my god September 8th The IMPORTANT DATE how could I forget. No card no present no plans to go out for dinner. At age 70 how *#*>># stupid can a guy get.

Maybe I can make it up to her by taking her to Bass Pro Shop and a Gun Show.

09/09/12 06:56 PM

#34

Congratulations Jon, on your 45th wedding anniversary.. Denny and I will be married 50 years on Oct.21,2012. Not possible!! I must have been a child bride.. I'm here to tell you, it just gets better. We have been blessed!!

09/10/12 08:54 AM

#35

Sally Thank you for the note. Congratulations to you and Denny on your upcoming 50 th anniversary. I think it's very admirable for a couple to be together for that many years. In this day and age it just doesn't happen to much. I hope you and Denny have many more years together. Jon

09/16/12 12:28 PM

#36

Great party last night.. Thanks to the people who put it all together.. Good food, great company. Can't wait until thenext time...

12/20/12 06:50 PM

#37

Dear class of 1960 -- Wishing you a Very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR Jon

12/27/12 05:27 PM

#38

Thanks Jon!! Have a happy healthy New Year!!! Judy

12/28/12 06:59 PM

#39

Bonnie Vogel (Goldenetz)

To all my classmates

Had a wonderful Christmas and I hope everyone else did also. I wish everyone a blessed New Year and a healthy one also. I hope all of your families are well and have had safe travel this time of year.

01/07/13 10:38 AM

#40

Marianna Bolley (Sadowski)

A little late with Christmas wishes, but then I was always late for a lot of my classes too. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and want to wish all of you a blessed and healthy New Year. We just got back from Florida after 2 w eeks. Had a great time, and the weather was great. Now all we have to do is take down Christmas decorations. Take care, and God bless..... Till next time....

01/12/13 04:11 PM

#41

Hoping everyone had a great Christmas and a fun entry into the new year!! All is well in mid-north Indiana and looking forward to spring. ha!

I never said THANK YOU to the committee for the really nice get together in September....it was great and I had a good time. Love to come back to Defiance and drive around the old familiar places......and see the changes and the things that have NOT changed much.

It was great to see everyone.....wish more of us would come out for these great times.....the more days I get to wake up in the morning, the more I appreciate old friends and growing up in Defiance.

Hugs to all....til next time!

Marianna (Bolley) Sadowski

Lafayette, Indiana

01/13/13 01:43 PM

#42

Christmas 2012, not my best ever. Nancy and I went to Arkansas to visit her sister and quarapoligic brother-in-law, first 3 days were great, then biggest snow, and 1st blizzard in history in ne Arkansas. cut our trip short, and came home, home 3 days and both wound in the hospital with flu, bronchitis, neumonia, dehydration,and low potassieum. Nancy there 8 days, myself 2 days. we're both recovering nicely. still had a great time visiting with family, and look forward to spending more time traveling this year.

02/19/13 08:20 PM

#43

Can't believe it's the middle of Feb. already.. Cold and blustery outside.. Hopefully an early spring.. Not much going on in Ft. Wayne... Just trying to stay warm.. Still busy, busy.. Hope everybody is doing well. So far Denny and I have missed the flu bug..Kids and grandkids have all had it tho.. Everybody take care, and God bless.. Till next time..

02/19/13 08:31 PM

#44