From Mike
Our eldest granddaughter, Rebecca, recently graduated from high school in Grants Pass, Oregon. She will soon leave for Fairmont, West Virginia, where she will attend school at Pierpot Community College. She plans to major in Theater and Ancient History. Becca is the daughter of our son Bill.
We also love Orlando’s. Best food ever and the chef——he is the best! Bob and Dolfe
From “Uncle” Mike
I had a great Father’s Day. Nanette took me to Estes Park, CO, for dinner at our favorite steakhouse. It is Orlando’s and just happens to be owned by my nephew, Chef Tandy Brown. Tandy is Frank & Marilyn’s eldest. If you have a chance to have dinner in the Estes Park area I urge you to choose Orlando’s. The meal is always delicious, the atmosphere soothing and the service top notch. This may sound like a cheap commercial, but I mean every word.
We had a chance to visit with Tandy to get an update on Frank & Marilyn. Frank, who turned 90 last April, has just moved to a nursing home in Beloit, Kansas, near the home of their daughter Chris Metz. Marilyn is in the process of selling their home in Belleville, Illinois, and will be moving to an assisted living apartment in the same community as Frank. This will put them near Chris, and much closer to Tandy and all of us in the Cheyenne/Eastern Colorado area. I hope to make a trip to Beloit to see Frank in the near future. Here is Frank’s (and soon Marilyn’s) new address:
Hilltop Lodge Retirement Community, 815 N. Independence Ave. (P O Box 467), Beloit, KS 67420-0467.
I’m sure the whole family joins me in wishing them the best with this major life change. They have lived in their home in Belleville for 65 years so moving was no easy decision.
On February 9th, 2013, Charles and LaVena celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the El Paso Club in Colorado Springs. They were joined by their children Ken, Ron and wife Jodi, and Natalie and husband Mark. Their daughter Cindy’s plane was canceled because of a terrible show storm in New York. Brother Mike and wife Nanette (Cheyenne), friends Don and Donna (Platteville, CO), good friend Bev Cash (Wichita, KS), along with many other long time friends from the Colorado Springs area were there to wish them well on this historic occasion. Chuck and LaVena’s children presented them with a beautiful leather-bound album of photos from their 50 years of marriage.
In Memory of Willis Shriver
12/18/1917 – 4/16/2012
Willie was born on a small farm in Weskan, Kansas to Irvin and Emily Shriver. He was the youngest of 4 children – Ruth, Burris, Lois and Willis. He graduated from Weskan High School and moved to Laramie, Wyoming, where he graduated from the University of Wyoming. While in college he visited his brother-in-law, Orville Hays, a UP engineer that was laid over in Cheyenne and staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. The hotel was owned by Grace Brown’s mother, Mary Eidam, and some of Grace and Tandy’s daughters worked there. One was Leah who quickly captured Willie’s heart. On November 23, 1940, they eloped to Sidney, Nebraska, and began a 69 year marriage before Leah died in 2009. They had 4 daughters -Sue Myers (deceased), Jean Patterson, Jerry Keslar and Jayne Clark, 12 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
Following college Willie worked for United Airlines as an airplane mechanic until 1946 when he began a long career at Frontier Refinery before retiring in 1985. He was an avid horseman spending many years in the Cheyenne Sheriff’s Mounted Posse riding in parades in Cheyenne, Calgary, Las Vegas and Pendleton, Oregon. He also joined his brother-in-law, Charles Brown, on several Pike’s Peak Trail Rides where he became a favorite with the members. Willie loved riding his horses, cleaning barns and mowing hay – activities he continued into his 90s. He also raised his dog and best friend, Buster, who now lives with Jean Patterson and “little Sam”.
Willie was always a favorite of his in-laws, the Browns, who appreciated his quiet sense of humor and patience with all of their antics. He is sorely missed by them, his children and grandchildren, and he and Leah’s many friends.