Please sign the Guess Book below and give us some ideas for the 2011 Guy Family Reunion.
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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.
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Important Message:
To All Guy Family Members
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All hotel reservations must be made at the Fairfield Inn. The phone number to reserve your room is 662-892-4469. (Rooms at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center cannot be booked for the Guy Family Reunion)
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www.wwconferencecenter.com
Click on the link above to view the facilities where the
2011 GUY FAMILY REUNION BANQUET
will be held
(view the Ballroom where the Banquet will be held, and the Amphitheater where we will be having Movie Night for the kids on Friday night)
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King Suite Sleeping Area
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RESERVE your hotel room for the Guy Family Reunion today: (don't be left having to stay in another hotel, reserve your room today)
Call the following numbers below and ask for the Guy Family Reunion special room rates.
The dates for the reunion are July 6-10, 2011
Phone: 662-892-4469
Toll Free: 800-228-2800
For information on how to reserve your room on-line go to the "Travelers Page" on the left hand side of this page, and click "Accommodations".
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The dates for reserving your hotel are between July 6-11, 2011.
Anyone wishing to reserve a room before July 6, 2011 or after July 11, 2011 need to contact me, Darin (Pookie) Leake on my cell phone @ 901-283-1177 or at my e-mail address dkeyl@aol.com
This is the only way you can get the same family reunion rates on your room. I will have to put you in contact with the hotel represenative who will reserve these dates outside of the ones we have blocked.
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www.marriott.com/memob
Click the link above to view the hotel where the
GUY FAMILY MEMBERS
will be staying during the family reunion
- Fairfield Inn & Suites
- 7044 Hacks Cross Road
- Olive Branch, Mississippi 38654 USA
- Phone: 1-662-892-4469
- Toll-free: 1-800-228-2800
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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.
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Michael Strayhorn & Pamela Guy-Strayhorn (Co-chairperson)
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A Daily Inspiration titled:
More Than A Conqueror by:
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.
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Throughout this web-site names of Guy Family Members are color-coded to 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*
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"The least people can do is to have a history of themselves for those who come after" - Noah Webster
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Gregory Guy with his wife Marian and their daughters Ashley and Britney.
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Gregory Guy and his family have volunteered to finance the Guy Family Reunion web-site for the entire year of 2010. Gregory is the son of Tommy Guy Jr. & Ann Thompson-Guy and the great-grandson of William Alfred Guy.
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Darin (Pookie) Leake (Web-Master)& (Co-chairperson)
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Please send pictures or other information to be included on the web-site to Darin (Pookie) Leake (great-great-grandson of Earnton Guy Sr.) at dkeyl@aol.com
You may contact Darin by (901) 737-6167 (home) or (901) 283-1177 (cell)
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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.
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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
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