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#37 JULY 12, 2008
2008 Prayer - Joe Gurto July 12, 2008 I’d like to welcome everyone here to the 37th Gurto family reunion. I’d also like to acknowledge a few important milestones for this year. Happy 25th Anniversary to Dana and Joe Raisian Happy 30th birthday to Jill Hackett Daniel Oliver Jenie Anglebrandt and Zachery Moneypenny I’d like to wish Diane and Barry Vorse a happy 40th wedding anniversary I’d like to wish a happy 50th birthday this year to Pam Lewis Frank Gurto Jr. Michael Gurto and Gary Anglebrandt Happy 60th birthday to Jim Speer and David Waldoch Happy 70th birthday to Pat Gurto and Lorraine Gurto Aunt B Ann and Uncle Jimmy celebrated their 60th anniversary this year as Aunt Effie and Uncle Bill would have Uncle Frank would have been 75, Aunt Rosie would have been 90 and Grandma Gurto would have been 110 years old this year. It’s been said that life is made up of a series of meetings and partings. In 1912 Peter Gurto parted from his home in Italy to America and a few years later, Mary Del Veccio did the same. They met each other and over the years greeted 12 children, their spouses, 32 grand children, some of their spouses and 2 great grandchildren before they left us in December 1971 and February 1972. Just a few months later in July, 55 family members met for the first family reunion at Uncle Jimmy’s and Aunt B-Ann’s. That was all of us at the time. For the next 36 years we have arranged to meet on the second Saturday of July each year to reminisce, to meet and greet new family members and to remember those who have parted from us. During that time we have welcomed another 125 people to our family and sadly had to say good-bye to 26 family members. Most recently Doug Ward and Uncle Jimmy whom we especially remember today. By my calculations, the Gurto family has grown to 180 people. So we thank you Lord for giving us the opportunity to greet each other again this year and keep our family tradition going. We thank you for the food we are about to receive and for the beautiful day you have given us for our celebration. We thank you for bringing so many of us together this year and for all those members of our families who were not able to join us today. We’ll spend a little while today with tears and laughter and then the day will close. Once again we will part from each other with many happy memories of today. We ask you Lord to keep us all safe until next we meet again. - Amen
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