Place: Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center Pavilion
Guy Family Committee
As you all know the clock is ticking, the time is less than a year for our grand event. I am so excited. We will be having our 2nd meeting on August 15, 2010 at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center Pavilion. At this time we will be discussing all that needs to be done and making any changes or amendments to the planned activities. Please if you live in the area, try to come. We are having a magnificent resort occasion for the young, for the young at heart. We will be having potluck and as before either Darin or I will be calling you about the food. We will be putting all our change together to put into our treasury for the odds and end that this meeting will cost. Please starting today get a can, get a jar, get a paper or plastic bag or the biggest bucket you see and start dropping your coins, your quarters, and your pennies, nickels, and dimes in and bring it with you, we also take ones, fives, tens, twenties and hundreds, we will have pails at the door when you come in. We would like to have a good old fashioned potluck Sunday afternoon dinner, so please call Pam at 901/210-8393 or Darin at 901/737-6167 or 901/283-1177 or email us at pamelastrayhorn@aol.comor dkeyl@aol.com.We are so excited about seeing each of you. So think about what you want to bring. And if you should get this message before I call, call us and let us know what you want to bring. The list of items that are being brought will be entered on the website. We look forward to seeing you and we love each and every one of you and be blessed.
Here is the menu of what Guy Family Members are bringing to the August 15, 2010 meeting. Please contact Pam @ 901-210-8393 or Darin @ 901-283-1177 and let them know what you would like to bring to the meeting.Thanks.
Click the link below to read an article from Bonnie Davis, a writer with MSNBC who did a telephone interview with Pamela Guy-Strayhorn and Darin (Pookie) Leake on Monday night June 21, 2010.
Both the Whispering Woods Hotel & Conference Center and the Fairfield Inn and Suites as well as the Picnic Area and Facility are located on the same property within walking distance.
Skate Odyssey where we will have the Skating Party for the kids on Thursday night is right across the street.
Hello Family:
I hope that the day finds each and every one of you filled with the joy and the strength of God. I thank each of you for all the support that you have shown for the family and for each other. The letters have been mailed out for the Guy Family Reunion and you should be receiving them any day now. If by June 10th you do not have a copy of the letter, please call Darin at 901/ 737-6167 or 901/283-1177 or Pamela at 901/210-8393 in order that a copy of the letter may be mailed to you. We now as of today’s date have 1 year and 1 month before we all get together and have a really really good time. We will be calling each of you that we have a number for starting on June 6th to discuss the details of the reunion. We will be having our next reunion meeting on 8/15/2010 at 3pm at Whispering Woods. Details of our next meeting will be posted by Mid July and we will be talking to each of you before then. So have a great day, be blessed and get ready get ready for our grand celebration.
We look forward to seeing each of you July 7-10, 2011,
Guy Family Reunion
7533 Hedgington Dr.
Memphis, TN. 38125
Michael Strayhorn & Pamela Guy-Strayhorn (Co-chairperson)
A Daily Inspiration titled: Time To Get Startedby: Pamela Guy-Strayhorn (great-granddaughter of William Alfred Guy) was moved and is available for viewing on the Daily Inspirations page of the web-site..
There's a different poem everyday.
Throughout this web-site names of Guy Family Members arecolor-codedto distinguish which child of Baldy Guy and grandchild of Millie Guy we all fall under:
*Descendants of Earnton Guy Sr*
*Descendants of William Alfred Guy*
*Descendants of Ruben Guy*
*Descendants of Mary Guy-Howard*
*Descendants of Annette (Nettie) Guy-Matlock* *Descendants of Margaret (Maggie) Guy-Saulsberry* *Descendants of Katie Lou Guy-Abrams *Descendants of George Guy* *Descendants of Street Guy*
"The least people can do is to have a history of themselves for those who come after" - Noah Webster
Gregory Guy with his wife Marian and their daughters Ashley and Britney.
Gregory Guyand his family have volunteered to finance the Guy Family Reunion web-site for the entire year of 2010. Gregory is the son ofTommy Guy Jr. & Ann Thompson-Guyand the great-grandson ofWilliamAlfredGuy.
Please send pictures or other information to be included on the web-site toDarin (Pookie) Leake (great-great-grandson of Earnton Guy Sr.)atdkeyl@aol.com
You may contactDarinby (901) 737-6167 (home) or (901) 283-1177 (cell)
This website will serve as our means of communication as we plan our next family reunion during the summer of 2011. Please vote on the poll page on various things related to this reunion. You can also take the Guy Family quiz and see how well you know the history of our family. Please send us pictures through the "Then and Now" page as well comments about what you are up to.
The 2011 GUY FAMILY REUNION Co-Chairpersons will present a CIVIL WAR theme at next year's reunion honoring our two GUY Family ancestors who served in the Civil War: BALDY GUY and his younger brother GEORGE GUY
