The 10^th annual Souhrada family reunion was held Sunday, August 5, at the Maquoketa (Iowa) Community Center with 76 attending.

 

It was hosted and arrang­ed by Leota Daws Campbell of Edina, Minn.; Connie and Sarah Schiffert and Bonnie Campbell of Davis, Florida; John and Nelda Vanicek and Elizabeth of Muskego, Wis.; Barbara Bollmann Flynn and Gordon and Velma Flynn of 'Davenport; "Richard and Anita Mason of Maquoketa; Michael' and Penny Souhrada of LeClaire and Anton Vanicek of Muscatine.

 

Honors were given to the oldest person attending the reunion;   Lydia Collins Ethridge of Oxford Junc­tion; the youngest, Scott Willimack son of Gary and Tammy Willimack of Oxford Junction; parent of the most children, Eleanor Henak Bicknese of Oxford Juntion; and grandparent and great grandparent of the most descendents, Anna Souhrada Merrill of Spring Valley, Minn.

 

The most recently married couple was Danny and Mona Feuss of Oxford Jun­ction and the longest married couple were Frank and Dorothy Souhrada, Jr. of Greeley, Colo. The Schifferts and Bonnie Campbell came the greatest distance.

 

Ann Dusanek Hansen of Oxford Junction was the con­test winner of a copy of the soon to be printed Souhrada Family Tree.

 

Eleanor Bicknese and Ann Hansen displayed a hand made quilt that is to be raffl­ed off at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Fall Festival on August 26.

 

Others attending from out of state were:

·        Helen Ales Souhrada of Greenfield, Wis.

·        Arthur Sourada of Milwaukee, Wis.

·        Viola Souhrada Noska of Park Rapids, Minn.

·        Duane and Linda Eaton and Garrett of East   Dubuque, Ill.

·        Frank Souhrada III of Kaysville, Utah

 

Other Iowa Communities represented were Onslow, Wyoming, Marion, Waverly, Lime Springs, Tipton, Waterloo, Walcott, Anamosa, Baldwin and Zwingle

 

The next reunion will be the second Sunday of August, 1991. The location will be either in northern Iowa or Minnesota.