WE HONOR OUR ANCESTORS
AND WALK WITH THEM AT KENNEKUK COVE



On July 10 of 2011, during a business meeting at the 56th Jarvis Reunion, it was decided by
the cousins attending that we make a move to honor our ancestors by purchasing a double brick to be put into the sidewalk around the buildings at Kennekuk Cove Park in Danville. This decision had been previously talked about at last year's reunion and this was why we held the silent auction this year to raise funds. It was also decided to purchase single bricks to be placed near the double brick , with those single bricks honoring the nine children in the Jarvis family. The reunion committee is paying for the brick for Russell, Pearl, and Elva and the other six family's will pay for theirs separately. Mike and Wanda Jarvis are in charge of working with the families.

We told you about the Reunion and missed seeing you.

http://www.jarviscousins.com/members/reunion_2011.htm

Hopefully, you will try again next year.


Carl Richeson sent this picture from the 2010 Reunion which showed Elva Jarvis
walking with Dean Hickman. Some others in photo are Keith Turner (back to camera) and Mike Jarvis.

Below is a brief recap of the business meeting

HONORING OUR ANCESTORS

Eighty Jarvis cousins gathered at Kennekuk  Park in Danville on July 10 to observe the 56^th Jarvis Reunion to picnic and visit and exchange stories of the past and present.
A silent auction was held to raise money for a double brick which will be placed in the sidewalk surrounding the park gazebo, where our 50^th Reunion pictures were taken near the old Red Oak school house that many Jarvis relatives attended. This is the wording that was decided on at the business meeting to place on the double brick. Wanda and Mike Jarvis will be in charge of the exact wording and cost of the brick. It was also decided that single bricks would be purchased and placed as close as possible to the larger brick signifying the nine children of the Jarvis family. Enough money was raised at the auction to pay for the double brick and we also will pay for a single brick containing Russell, Pearl, and Elva’s names. It was also decided that the families of Nina, Edith, William, Nellie, Walter, and Carl would be responsible for those individual bricks. Inscriptions would be the individual family’s decision.
 Below is only a facsimile of the double brick we are purchasing  

 
In Memory
OF
CHARLES AND ETHEL JARVIS
AND NINE
CHILDREN
1899-2011

 

THIS IS THE DOUBLE BRICK THAT PEOPLE DECIDED TO HAVE.

  



These are some of the building that surrounds the gazebo at Kennekuk Park.

This is only a rough sketch of the sidewalk bricks