Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

A perfect Summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

       James Dent

Joan Pease (Clark)

Linda, yes, it was Charity Lee! 
My memory continually amazes me. I can't remember what I had for dinner three nights ago, but here's one from fourth grade at Franklin School: I was a horse-crazy girl who got a citizenship check mark on my report card because I was overheard betting on the Swaps vs Nashua Kentucky Derby. (Swaps won.)

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Joan:  My family had many horses.  Wish I had known you liked them.  I would have accomodated you with free access.        Linda

James (Jim) Rookus

HELLO RAIDERS 64 !   I've been Unpresent (is that a word?} for about a month!

I have watched site as often as possible but just no energy to think of talking or paying attention to Birthdays.... MY APPOLOGIES !!!   The reason for no energy is that we just moved !  That really wears an old guy out !   I will guarantee you that my next move is going to be carried out of hear in a black bag !  Moving from 4000 Sq Ft to 1500 and very limited storage is a lot of back breaking work.  Boxes of books are heavy,  sorting through 50 Hawiian shirts for the favorites was "heart breaking" and lets not talk about the shoes !   Now that we are somewhat settled, now only to sort through about another 40 or so boxes and plastic tubs of stuff occupying my one stall garage, hoping to get the car in by snow fall !  We didn't sell our house, are letting son and wife live there .... advantage I can still take youngest grandkids there to swim BUT I DON"T HAVE TO OPEN and CLOSE the pool any more !!!  YIPPEE !!!  Privilegdes without the responsibility and work!  We are now in a very lovely 55 and older community on the opposite end of the Grand Rapids area (26 miles move) to be around the corner from our youngest son and the 5 youngest grandkids who are the ones we are constantly involved with in our daily lives.  As Proverbs 17:6 states..... "Grandchildren are the crown of the aged".  Well that is me... AGED !!!  The neat thing is that we didn't sacrifice any actual daily living space,  LR is same size, dinging even a foot wider,  much more open environment, and master BR 5' longer and 1' wider and master bath much larger also.  Just almost NO EXTRA Storage (No Basement).  BUT this pack rat will convert to mouse with a back pack !

I will soon reusme my attention to Birthdays!  Time will now permit and now also back to dependable internet !

SEE YA'll Soon !

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

Linda, if you remember, my Dad and I took horse riding lessons at your Dad's stables every Saturday morning.  It was fun.

Jim, it is nice to hear from you.  How has your puppy adjusted to your move?  I've lived in my home 61 years on June 1st.  I can't imagine living someplace else and don't want to.  My oldest Son is a Social Service Director at a nusring home and he said the people that have the hardest time adjusting are people, like me, who have lived in the same home most of their lives. 

I hope you and Carol are planning on coming to the Birthday Party in August.  It's going to be a fun time. I know that's quite a trip for you, but you can stay for Cheek's the next night and make a weekend of it.  It would be great to see both of you.

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Jim, I second everything Sandy said. Glad you're back with us and hope to see you at the 80th B'day Bash.

And now for a little humor:

I've lived alone for over 30 years and finally joined an online service that matches up senior citizens. It's call Carbon Dating.

I was going to tell you a joke about time travel, but you didn't think it was funny.

Why can't you trust atoms? Because they make up everything.

Dave, where are you? Please help me out here!!!  

James (Jim) Rookus

Sandy.....  My new mug shot should answer your question about Muffin adjusting.... SHE is in HEAVEN !

We sure hope to make the Birthday Bash... Depends on Dr's scheduling stuff .... Carol has a few things coming up out of our control scheduling... still not determined.

Regina (Sue) Petersen (Koppenhoefer)

Jack, I wanted to make sure you saw this on FB today.  I also spent a lot of time at Withers Library!

David Long

Well Mel, asked me to jump in  

David Long

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Sandy:  How old were you when you took those lessons?  Did you see me?  If we were 11, I was sick for a year and out of school.     Linda 

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

Linda, I think I was in Junior High or more like High School when we were there on Saturday mornings.  I don't remember seeing you there, but I did know that it was your Dad that owned the business and we were in school together.

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

David Long

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Jack Keefe: That photo of you looking at negatives ............I don't have a copy of a photo of me and my horse when I was about 12-14.  It appeared to be about 3 x 5 or 4 x 6.   It said 'shop talk for Linda Bristow and her horse.'  Is there any way to get a copy of that?  It was a long time ago.   Thank you for thinking about this.  Love ya, Linda

David Long

David Long

Just came across this one...

Marvin Theobald

Joy Hartmann Freedlund, a member of our very special BHS Class of 1964, passed April 14, 2026. Her amazing obituary is posted in the In Memory page. There are never words to express these losses, but hopefully awareness refreshes special memories of those we shared those early years with. Thank you to Gail Hempstead Uphoff for making this loss known.

James (Jim) Rookus

Well my Raider friends .... back again after a couple of weeks !  The photo below is of my birthday list showing the many birthdays I have missed in my absence!  Just didn't have enough time to do them individually and printed in Raider colors ... So a photo of the list will have to suffice 

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

David Brock

Happy July 4 to one and all!!  A special thanks to all veterans who helped keep America Free!!

James (Jim) Rookus

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Pat Summers Griffith

          AND

Mike Meece

HOPE YOU'RE 

HAVING A

WONDERFUL DAY !

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Marvin:  Thank you and Gail Hempstead for letting us know about Joy Hartmann.  Joy and Dennis Alexander were first cousins.  Their mothers were sisters.  One time I remember Orville Alexander bringing his 2 kids and Joy's family to our place to ride horses.  We were about 12 then.  She loved my horse named Sugar.  Dennis told her that his dad was going to get him a better horse than my horse.  I remember telling Denny to shut up or I would hit him.  Thank you both again.   Love y'all!   Linda

Sandra Jeakins (Singletary Sizemore)

Linda, I didn't know Joy Hartmann and Dennis Alexander were cousins.  When we bought our house in 1965, Orville Alexander. had the real estate listing.  He told me then, that the Alexander's and Jeakins' were related. I had no idea. A few years ago, when we were at Frankin Park for their band concert one of the Alexander's introduced herself to me and confirmed we were related..  So that makes Joy and I cousins, too.  At one of the reunions, I told Dennis we were related.  He didn't know it, either.   Small world.

Jack Keefe

For Limda Bristow Elias -- 

Here's the photo of you and your horse, from the Pantagraph of August 7, 1960. I'm making it kind of public, I know, but this is a good picture and it deserves notice from the entire class. I downloaded the entire story -- it was a photo essay in the paper -- and if you email me I can send you the whole clipping. Many of The Pantagraph's negatives are available on line now, and if you Google around you'll find them. I took this from newspapers.com so the microfilm quality is lower than that of a normal photo. Anyway -- enjoy.