How much do you know about previous Packard Family Reunions? To find out, try your hand at the following trivia questions. Click on "comments" below this blog entry to enter your answers. The correct answers will be posted next month, so check back to see if you were correct.
1. How many times has the Packard Reunion been rained out?
2. What food did Grandma Packard bring to the reunion in a bowl?
3. What was a tradition when the reunion was held at the pond?
4. What cold treats were always given away, and as much as you wanted, at the reunion?
5. Who is the oldest Packard descendent?
6. Who led the dinner prayer in the early years of the reunion?
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2 comments:
1. not once
2. which Grandma Packard?
3. throw at least one person into the pond!!
4. pop
5. ?
6. Abby
To Rebecca
the answers as I understand
1 correct
2 Etta Belle (Huntley) Packard born
June 27 1870 Married Robert Edson Packard Oct 7 1891 at New Hartford Iowa-- both are buried at New Hartford. the Packard reunion is held in memory of her around this date and the first one was held in 1959
3. correct
4. pop and ice cream
5. the oldest living descendent is Gail Vernard Packard whose birthday is Oct 16 1918 - born Des Moines Iowa which makes him 90 yrs old . It would be nice if people would send him a belated email at bev1send@aol.com (Bev and Gail Packard) the live in Camas Washington just across the river from Portland OR.
Gail is second son of Leon and Florence Packard and Leon is the oldest son of Robert and Etta Packard
6. there were several Abby , Isiah Book, Dean Allen, Jake Raser and several others
Hope this answers your questions
Charles Edson Packard
-I was names after my two grand fathers Charles C. Carman and Robert Edson Packard
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