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Lower Michigan, Southern Wisconsin and Southern Illnois

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October 20, 2021 After the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan, we settled in for a couple of weeks in lower Michigan.  Our time quickly filled up with reunions with more realtives and friends we havent seen for 50 years or more.   What a blessing!! Friends from our youth at Redeemer Baptist Church, Warren, MI sharing great stories (which will not be repeated here!).  But what fun! My family was always close to extended family growing up.  As such John got to know his mothers cousins, as if they were his 1st cousins.   The watress who took this family picture obviously didn't know how to use a camera! Some are now with the Lord.  Some are close to John's age.  One is eight years younger.  My mom's sister Ann was there as well as her son Ed, my 1st cousin.  I hope you arn't confused!  There great stories here from my mom's family history.   All of these are descendants of Andrew Walaksay (John's great grandfather) of the former Yugoslavia, who heard the Lord sp