2013 Rowlison Reunion - July 19 - 22 in Hastings, Nebraska

The 2013 edition of the biennial reunion of the Rowlison family will be held on July 19-22 in Hastings, Nebraska.

We've booked the Hastings Hotel and Convention Center located at 2205 Osborne Dr. E. just off Highway 281 in the north part of Hastings.

We have a block of rooms reserved at a rate of $89.99 per night with a booking deadline of June 19, 2013; extra rooms will be released to a waiting list of Softball Tournament folks on that day.

I will be contacting our many cousins by email or snail mail shortly. Contact me with any questions, etc. at jjhnsn@windstream.net or P. O. Box 508 in Sutton, NE 68979.

2011 Reunion - Colorado Springs

The descendants of James Demetris Rowlison and Rhoda Walton held their biennial reunion in Colorado Springs during the weekend of July 22 - 24, 2011. A smaller than usual group attended with no loss of enthusiasm as a smaller group. About 35 people attended.

The highlight of the weekend was the dinner and show at the Flying W Ranch - since destroyed in the Waldo Canyon fire on June 26, 2012. See:  http://www.gazette.com/articles/ranch-140885-reportedly-waldo.html

We enjoyed visiting at the hotel on Saturday, all day and headed out to a restaurant for dinner Saturday evening.

Our only glitch of the weekend was when Lena missed the briefing on start time for the dinner and she and Roscoe arrived a couple of hours early. Actually it was not that much of a glitch as they took advantage of the extra time and caught a fine nap.

It was a fine dinner followed by the usual fundraising auction conducted by the family huckster, BJ of Illinois.

Our section of the house at the Flying W show.

Waiting for the show

There was more rainbow than rain that night.