Doris Holm To Celebrate 92nd Birthday

On October 1, our cousin Doris Fieg Holm will turn 92 years old.  Her daughter, Janet McHenry sends this blurb, and asks that we send our happy returns of the day to:

Doris Holm

9325 E. Stockton Blvd., #116, 

Elk Grove CA 95624

Standing: Janet, Pete, Roberta.  The birthday girl is seated.

Doris is thriving in her senior living apartment at The Meadows, active in events held there. She secures interviews for the Elk Grove Historical Society with native senior citizens, attends church at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and keeps the Elk Grove Inner Wheel organization together (associated with Rotary International). Doris very much enjoys hosting family and friends in the private dining room at The Meadows and would love to see any Fieg family if they happen to be in the Sacramento area. 

Doris is the only living child of Louise and Max Fieg and the only child of both of them. She was from a Brady Bunch type of family, as Max was a widower with two boys and two girls, and Louise was a widow with two girls. She and Bob Holm (dec'd) had five children: Janet, Nancy (dec'd), Peter, Roberta, and Matthew. Janet is a writer and speaker, Pete is an EMT, Roberta has a large daycare business, and Matt is a teaching golf professional.

She says she had a work history of 19: 19 years as a homemaker and designer, 19 years as an elementary school teacher, and 19 years drafting homes. She still creates landscape watercolors and enjoys her "favorite sports": eating out, visiting casinos, and watching San Francisco Giants games.  

She can also be contacted at 916-425-4869. 

Thank you!

Janet

Janet and Craig McHenry

Steve and Roberta Martinez

Joyce and Pete Holm

 

Columnist Remembers Greg Fieg, Senator Seward

Here is the link to a column recently published about Greg Fieg in the Oneonta Daily Star.  Read it and weep ... with laughter!

https://www.thedailystar.com/opinion/columns/backtracking-in-our-times-local-moviemakers-home-developers-had-ambitions/article_43011a97-95d3-561b-a902-9485257d5102.html

Fieg Cousin Wins Book Award

Janet Holm McHenry, daughter of Bob and Doris Fieg Holm, granddaughter of Max Fieg, and prolific author of Christian books, recently attended a publishing event in Nashville, signing her most recent book and enjoying the opportunity to network with other Christian writers and communicators.

At the event, Janet also received a publishing award.  Her book, The Complete Guide to the Prayers of Jesus, was given a Golden Scroll Award (runner-up) for the Best Christian Living Book at the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association banquet, held in conjunction with the Christian Product Expo.  

(On her Facebook page, Janet noted that she also spent time at the expo doing what she terms "prayer walks" throughout the convention hall, asking blessings for the participants.)

Published by Bethany House Publishers, a traditional publisher with Baker Books, the work is Janet's twenty-third book in her thirty-year-plus career of writing.  Two of her books have been bestsellers:  PrayerWalk (WaterBrook/Random House) and 50 Life Lessons for Grads (Worthy/Hachette).

Her newest book was just released.  Stronger Every Day is a Bible study on the topic of strength, published by First Place for Health, a Christian health organization of 500,000 worldwide.

Janet is a journalism graduate of the University of California - Berkeley who has worked with words her whole adult life - as a technical writer/editor, newspaper reporter and city editor, freelance editor, and high school English teacher.

Janet is married to Craig McHenry, a cattle rancher in the Sierra Valley in northern California, about 40 miles northwest of Reno. They have four adult children, who Janet says "are all done with college, all married, and yay, all gainfully employed."

She loves to speak encouragement at women's retreats, conferences, and other events, and can be contacted through her website, www.janetmchenry.com, or via email at janetmchenry@live.com.