Posted on: Aug 19, 2023 at 6:55 PM

I wish you the very best of birthdays! I have the fondest memories of your many kindnesses when we were students at Irvin High. I wished I could come to the reunions, but is the same time I lead groups to the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East!
May your days be peaceful and your memories always a joy.
Shalom—Salam,
Dann

Posted on: Aug 19, 2022 at 6:26 PM

I hope you have a wonderful day! I hope to be home long enough to make the reunions one day. It would be great to see you and all the others after more than fifty years since graduation.

Best wishes,
Dann

Posted on: Aug 19, 2021 at 6:34 PM

Happy Birthday! It has been many years since I knew you in highschool and do not know if you remember me, but I had a great respect for you. I hope you have a wonderful day.

I very rarely go on this website, so unfortunately I have just learned of Donna's passing. She was a dear friend in high school and I will keep her in my heart. God Bless her family.

I spent my first 4 1/2 years of grade school at Ysleta Elementary in the Lower Valley -- when we moved to Northeast El Paso in 1961, my Mom took me to register at Crosby Elementary -- the registrar pointed to a student Hall Monitor there in the office and said, "He's in the 5th grade, just go with him." -- and when he walked me to my class, I remember thinking: "WOW, they grow 5th graders TALL out here in Northeast!!" -- and for the next 58 years, he was my friend, my financial advisor, and a trusted family member who attended Vanstory family reunions and events.  After our Freshman year at UTEP, I had parlayed two summers worth of El Paso Natural Gas Company "employee's kid's summer job" money into buying and fixing-up a 9-year-old '60 Corvette (detachable hardtop/convertible) -- Jack, of course, thought it only appropriate that we "christen" the car -- after all, it was still the Summer of Love in 1969, so we set out west to find America -- we were Tod & Buz from Route 66 and Captain America & Billy from Easy Rider, all rolled into one (sort of ;) -- I said at our 50th reunion last October that each of us individually was the sum of all those around us, and Jack was a huge chunk of that -- he was tall in many, many ways -- he was our gentle giant who was as cool as the flip side of the pillow -- all of our lives are so much better and richer because he was in them... 

PS: Tisha did a MAGNIFICENT job of representing our class at the funeral, speaking for all of us with poise and grace...

In case you want to see the 2018 LSU-A&M game condensed into less than 30 minutes. Aggies win in 7 overtimes 74-72.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tx90tZKKus&feature=share)

MASTERFUL job on the pictures, Art -- FANTASTIC!! CV

AMEN to the above comments!  "Fellabaum" had a dry sense of humor and an EXREMELY quit wit -- nothing got past that girl! --she'll have 'em in stitches up in heaven -- she's one of the ones we'll all miss the most at the reunion...  Charlie Vanstory