For Memorial Day weekend, we went down to Tucson for a family reunion. I have lots of notes and pictures to sort through, so I'm going to start with the post about Memorial Day itself. We got back from Tucson at about 11pm and woke up early to meet with another part of the Udall family at the Greenwood Cemetery; a tradition that is 45 years strong. The picture below is the whole group in back of graves of John Hunt and Leah Smith.
he following is an excerpt from an email my mom sent to family: "We went to 2 family reunions: Tucson for a 2-day celebration of the Mo-Stewart family and Levi Webb family, and Monday for the John H Udall family. Big contrast between the number of children in attendance. Tucson relatives are a mixed group...mostly not active in LDS faith, some gay, many political, not many children. As you can see, John H Udall reunion in Phoenix is filled with posterity...did not take a poll...but probably most are active LDS. In Phoenix, there was a sweet focus on family and a more earthly confirmation of the reality of the covenant and blessing of having joy in our posterity."
The smaller group who is descended from John Nicholas and Sybil Elizabeth went to their nearby graves.
My mom read to us from Sybil's diary.
Sybil with Sybil
Then we went to Chick-fil-a.
My dad proving that you are never too old to play a practical joke on your brother:
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