Old proverb: "To speak the names of the departed is to make them live again."

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Doris Holm Celebrates 85th Birthday

Doris Fieg Holm's family is barring her from the kitchen at her California home while they cook up a spectacular barbecue celebration of her 85th birthday this weekend.

Writes Doris, in an e-mail dated Sept. 27, "Daughter Nancy and [husband] Gary Wiley are here from Queen Creek, AZ, and niece Dolly Rosenbaum (sister Helen's daughter) from Elkton, MD. ...Others will start to come Friday night.  We expect almost all my offspring and in-and-outlaws from Friday 'til Sunday, about 33 in all, for a barbecue bash complete with grandson's disc jockey music.  I have just finished playing in a golf tournament yesterday.  I wond the long drive and first place in my flight.  Feels pretty good for an older lady."

Doris was born on October 1, 1927.  Her mother, the former Louise Voorhees Stiles, married her dad, Max Fieg, after Max's first wife, Nettie Newman Fieg, died at age 33.  Max was the fourth child of Carl and Emilie Fieg who came to America from Germany in 1899 and established our line of the Fieg family here.

Felicitations and many happy returns of the day to Doris!  (Her address, by the way, is 8681 Mackey Rd., Elk Grove, CA 95624 if you want to shower her with gifts....)

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