Family Reunion This Summer in Texas - Part II

Below is an update and some additional information regarding the 2009 family reunion in Texas from Millie Meyer:


Dear Family,

First off, to all of you receiving this, I'm asking that you pass this along to any cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. that you have that fall into the category of relatives, as time is short and we would like for this to be a well attended, successful reunion, one that can be remembered fondly for many years to come.

Many addresses are incorrect and I may not be able to give full attention to those that have new addresses, if they are not in my hands within the next few short weeks. When I accepted this position of secretary, I had full intentions of digging in so to speak and get this reunion back like it use to be. However when the people are gone that made it work (I'm referring to the first generation removed from my grandmother and grandfather Dean, their children and older grandchildren) the enthusiasm is still there in a lot of us, but our children and grandchildren just haven't caught fire yet. You don't have to tell me that things are different today, but to keep things in perspective, family is still family and should be right up there among the important things in life.

In selecting a place for this reunion, I have tried to keep it more or less in the middle of the United States. Go to lantanaresort. us or state parks in Texas, same name, and you can learn as much as I know about the place. They encourage you to bring your horses as they have stabling facilities for a nominal fee. Also if you have a boat, bring it as they hope to have a Marina by the 4th of July but IF THEY DON'T, there is still a place to dock your boat less than a minute from the lodge and it is free. The resort overlooks a lake. Everything is on the ground floor. There are trail rides @ $25 per hour ($35 for two hours) located nearby at the Black Mustang Ranch. Monica should answer the phone 1-817-915-8455 to use this facility. There are also bike trails.

This is located near Point Pilot, Texas.

Their rooms are $85 and $95, the latter are on the lakeside. All facilities here are on the ground floor. The number of people in the room makes no difference but a rollaway bed is $10 extra per night. There is no cooking in the rooms like grills etc. but you can have an ice chest in your room and they have coffee makers in there. They also have TV's in each room. I have requested a block of ten rooms including the 2 handicapped rooms for the reunion. Some have 2 double beds and some have a king sized bed. When you make your reservations please tell them that you are with the Cook-Dean reunion because when the 11th room is reserved with a credit card, we and those reserving after that get $5 off each of the rooms per day. Every little bit helps is how I feel. Most rooms have step in showers so if you require a tub please tell them when you make reservation. The phone number for the Lantana Resort is 1-940-686-0261 for reservations. This block of rooms will be held until May 22nd when they will be made available to the public, which includes you and there are certainly more rooms available if you reserve early enough. They tell me this is usually a busy weekend.

We plan to breakfast in our room with cold cereal, fruits, and cocoa or milk and have sandwich stuff for lunch in our room. They have a continental breakfast available for $7.95 with the usual fare. Saturday there will be a buffet style meal served in the meeting room and I'm trying to narrow that down at the present time. Prices are not cheap and it has been a struggle making a decision but I don't have time to contact each of you and then make a decision. With tax and tip the Rosemary Lemon Roasted Chicken will run right at $30. The family Reunion Treasury is putting $8 toward each dinner reservation so that will leave a balance of $22 for each person to pay. Reservations for this dinner accompanied by your full payment of $22 for each dinner should be sent to Doretha Albee, 9202 Inverness Road, Santee, California 92071 NO LATER THAN 3 weeks before the Reunion. I calculate this as about the 10th of June. Checks are to be made out to Doretha Albee NOT TO the reunion because she can do nothing with them but return them if they are.

The balance of the dinner is salad, rice pilaf, seasoned vegetable medley, and assorted wheat rolls with butter honey and your choice of coffee, tea, or water for a drink. Sodas are extra. No additional charge for children under 5 years. There is no dessert furnished with this meal.

We have a meeting room reserved for Saturday, July 4, 2009 costing $450 which the reunion is paying. We have it for the day. We will have dominoes during the day and hopefully albums of pictures and memory books for sharing in this room. This is where we will have our annual meeting, auction, and Bingo in the evening plus our "together"meal about 4 PM. There are a lot of places we can sit and visit including the lobby or a covered area outside with tables and seating should we overfill the room capacity. We plan to have a schedule of events waiting in the lobby when you arrive. Tentative reservations for the rooms are starting on the 2nd of July this year and leaving on the 6th. I did this to give some flexibility to everyone in case you wanted to come early or stay late. The closer the time gets, the less likely you could get 5 nights in a row. Friday evening we will gather in the lobby to visit and share pictures.

Do I ever hope that I have covered everything but in case I haven't here is my address:

Millie Meyer
5200 W. Teal Road
Fairburn, Georgia 30213-2303

You can e-mail Millie at gaymillacywolf AT (@) aol.com

Next is, in case this is your first time attending, our auction. Usually, but not limited to, homemade items are brought. For instance this year I am bringing my pepper jelly and maybe a couple pieces of my handmade jewelry. These items are donated to the reunion for the auction and that is how we can afford to do something like this. Then you spend your money to buy them. Any suggestions for an auctioneer?

Hope to see you there!

Sincerely, Millie Meyer

A Reunion This Summer In Texas

Hey Gang,

You read it right. Plans are in the making for a reunion this summer in late June or early July at Lantana ResortLantana Resort web site and get information about the Lodge but what I want to send you is about your family so we can put something together for our future on how we are connected. Neda volunteered to put this information together and then sent it to me so I want to pass it further along to you so you can either bring it with you or send it if you cannot come. outside of Dallas (north of it) and south of Okla. City (of course). I hope to finalize this by the weekend and get some information to you in the regular mail as soon after that as is possible for an old person. This will involve information about the rooms, costs and so forth. I would sure like to have all of your mailing addresses because I have a feeling that the addresses I have are going to bounce back on a lot of you. SO, if you have family or know family that might be remotely interested, please pass the word on and get them to send me mailing information as soon as possible. I am illiterate about sending attachments on email and so have to send what I want you to have in the mail. You can go to the

Also I would like to encourage you to bring your pictures of past reunions so we can all get a look at them and if you need names on them, maybe there will be people there who can help with this. I'm going to start putting mine in an album this coming Monday after I buy a table to put in my workroom so I can just leave them out all the time til I get it together. I haven't been to many reunions but I sure want to make this one. If we get bored with each other, I will try to remember to put in the Dominoes and maybe Doretha can bring the Bingo pieces.

There will be a shared meal that the reunion will pay $5 toward for each person but we will have to have advanced reservations on this and that money should go to Doretha Albee, 9202 Inverness Road, Santee, 92071. As soon as I get the final details I will put out another newsletter with those details.

Even my husband is coming this time. It will be a first in a long time experience for us to be away from home together.

Think I'd better close for now and take care of the home front. You will be hearing from me so please start thinking about a trip to some of our root country.

[We hope to have a lot of genealogy information as well, and maybe Vicki Dean will come and share of her voluminous knowledge on our family history as well as others.

Sincerely,

Millie Meyer

You can e-mail Millie at Gaymilllacywolf @ aol.com

You'll need to take the spaces after and before the "@" symbol out for your e-mail to work.

(They were put in to help prevent anything on the internet from stealing her e-mail address and filling it with Spam/junk e-mail)

Or, if you prefer snail-mail , her mailing address is below:

Millie Meyer

5200 West Teal Road,

Fairburn, Ga. 30213

For more information about the Lantana Lodge and Marina, click on the link below:

http://www.lantanalodge.us/