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This Year's Reunion
Will Be October 1, 2023
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PLACE:
Old Post Park
TIME: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Picnic Shelter Number 7
Potluck Lunch at 1:00 pm
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Can you believe that this is the
42st Eubanks family reunion?
The first R.W. Eubanks family
reunion was held September 15, 1974 …… 49 years
ago, at the homes of Marvin and Beluah Eubanks and their
daughter Bernice Brigham in the North New Hope community, northwest
of Dover, Arkansas. There were a few of the early years when
there was no reunion. And then starting in 1988 for the
next 32 years we held our family reunion come rain or shine.
Then Covid-19 hit in 2020 and the reunion was canceled to be
on the safe side. In 2021 & 2022 we had the 40th & 41st
reunion and a small group showed up to keep the tradition alive.
Here's hoping the 2023 reunion can be held without worry, attended
by all and start a new streak.
Time passes
so quickly that it’s sometimes hard to believe that
a group of our family, our ancestors, started getting together
over 49 years ago to celebrate those who came before us.
When you're in your youth these reunions
don’t seem so important. But as the years go by and you
start to notice the "ONE'S" that are no longer with
us, you start to realize how important they really are. It’s
a time of remembrance….a time to reflect on our youth, a
time to see uncles’ and aunts’, a time to remember
baseball games in a pasture, where aunts’ in dresses
played first base, where cousins, male and female played the outfield.
Mornings of chocolate gravy, aunts that put cows milk
in cartons so you would drink it. You get the idea.
As time goes by and we get so wrapped up in raising our families
and making a ‘livin’, we don’t visit our kin
like folks of the past did. I remember lots of Sunday picnics
after church with swimming in the bayou. My kids missed
a lot of this because we were “TO BUSY”. Well, if
you’re in the same boat, it’s not to late to start
renewing these relationship with cousins, aunts and uncles. There
are some folks missing from reunions of the past. And there will
be some missing from future reunions. But let us honor them
by continuing to attend.
There will be
games for the kiddies also. So bring your
children, bring your grandchildren, and bring
you lawn chairs. The lawn chairs are for those
of us to old or to tired to do anything more than
sit and visit.
For more information
click on ’horseshoes’.
Will there be
a Bean Bag toss or other games this year?
I don't know! It's up to YOU!
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