Hello all 60's graduates!

It is interesting to read about what all of you have been doing since graduation. I married Rufus Kenagy in August,1960. We lived in Iowa for about a year, and then moved to Garden City, Mo. where we have been ever since.

We have 4 children, 1 girl and 3 boys, 15 grandchilldren ages 4-29 and 3 great grandchildren.

I was a stay at home mom while the children were growing up. I have been a Certified Dietary Manager in a nursing home for 25 years and am still working full time. I don't know when I will retire as I enjoy what I am doing. (most of the time!) I do have a good boss who will let me have time off if I want it, so that helps.

Until next time,

Edith (King) Kenagy

We are in Stockholm, Sweden beginning our visit with our grand daughter Alyssa. The city is beautiful. We spent two days here and we will return after seeing her and enjoy four more days. In this picture we are just north of Jokkmokk, Sweden. This is where Alyssa is spending a year with Radical Journey a year of service with the Mennonite Church.

You will notice that the dogs are laughing while taking these two Iowa farmers for a ride in Lappland, in northern Sweden. It was a great ride with a friend of grand daughter Alyssa.s.

Velda's Greatgrandchildren

Audrey and Tyler Tumilty my g-grandchildren's picture I received last week.
Audrey is showing her talents of dressing her little brother. T-shirt and Hawkeye sweats with some of her girly socks. She is 4 year's old and enjoying her first year of pre-school. Tyler is 5 months. He is just starting to develop his personality and still like big sister fussing with him.
We are looking forward to a visit with them in late July-August while their dad is in Italy for
a months deployment. Katie and the kids will stay until Audrey starts school in August.
We get pictures about every day that Katie sends with her phone. It is such a different age than when our girls were little.
So lets see more of your families. Edith I believe you have g-grandchildren too. I am surely not the only ol' g-gm.
Omer gave me a picture lesson today. This is the result.

Blog Entries, Please!

Thank you to all who have sent a posting to the blog site so far. We have promises from a couple more classmates who are in the process of writing wisdom for the rest of us to enjoy.

My "first assistant", pictured above, and I will be sending out another arm twisting email to those of you who have not yet indicated you will be contributing. Several people who had concerns about their computer skills, found out that becoming a blog contributor is no big deal.

There is a lot of interest in the blog judging from the number of hits recorded so far. The site monitoring this blog indicates that some 550 hits have been made as of this date. Just send me an email at maryjanetroyer@yahoo.com and ask to be invited to join the blog.

My "first assistant" dropped out of a tree in a park in Tena, Ecuador. It was kind of a surprise but I knew immeditately it was NOT one of the guys from the Class of 60. It had hair.

Where we live in Canada.

This is where we live during the months of June, July and August in Canada. You can learn more about our summer ministry with Avant Ministries at www.avmi.org/familycamp.

If you enjoy fishing come to camp. Eldon's a good guide. You will catch and eat Walleye! You will relax because you will not hear a phone ring, or watch a TV or use any of those other high powered tech instruments we use everyday in this world. You will not even use your cell phone during your time at camp because there will be no bars on your signal meter. You are 45 minutes from town over a rough road which isn't conducive to traveling unless it is really necessary.

This is from our dinning room window in our home in Wellman, Iowa.

Marv Stoltzfus

After high school I went into I-W service in Colorado Springs. John Rhodes and Keith Litwiller went to the same place. After my service I moved back to Iowa. I worked for a farm machinery dealer until I started my own farm tractor repair business.

In 1966 I married Zelda Yoder. We have 3 children. Todd, our oldest, is married and has 5 children. He has a carpet cleaning business here in Sarasota and is active in their church in children's ministry. Craig, our second son, lives in Denver and is a computer tech. Our daughter, Angela, lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and is a tour guide into Yellowstone National Park. In the winter she does tours by snow coach and snowmobile and in the summer by van.

In 1978 we moved to Florida. I had a lawn business for 25 years. When I semi-retired, I began working for a company in sales of Amish made playsets. I sell and install the sets. I also sell property insurance and own some rental properties. This keeps me as busy as I care to be.

My wife was a travel agent, so we had the opportunity to travel quite a bit during those years. We went on approximately 20 cruises to the Eastern and Western Caribbean, Alaska, and the Mediterranean.

I now have time to attend the Iowa breakfast, once a week at Troyer's Dutch Heritage Restaurant. This only happens for about 3 months in the winter. It used to be for older retired people, and now I find it is my age group who attend. I enjoy seeing people like Omer and Mary Jane Troyer, Wilbur and Mary Litwiller, and Jim and Lois Bare, and many others from Iowa.

I also enjoy reading the blog that our "great" class president has started. I hope to hear from many more of you and hope to see you at the reunion next year.

Marv Stoltzfus

Hello from Sarasota! I don't have my profile put together yet but will do more later. I have enjoyed reading everyone else's comments. Because Omer has been twisting my arm, I am now signed on. I live 30 miles from Omer and since we see each other quite often, he has been putting the heat on for me to join in the blog. When I get my history put together, I will return.