Twins? Mom's Cousins & a Howell Reunion

Photos from 1964. Converted from slides May 2020.

Getting slides converted to digital photos  ... came upon these photos. Chris joked that Scott had a twin sister we knew nothing about! Actually, that is baby Lorraine, born three days before Scott. These kids are Mom/Margie's COUSINS in Manti. Their dad, Margie's Uncle Ken was GrandmaNorman/Zada's youngest sibling (Kenneth Rodney Howell 25 January 1929 – 6 October 2009). They had one more child Blake who was close in age to Chris. Mom thought it was funny to have 1st cousins the same age as her own children!  Memories from Mom ...

• Greg is the oldest boy. He died a number of years ago.
• Deborah Kay (husband, Mike Mangum, died of a brain tumor a number of years ago). When she was young, she stuck her finger in a wall radiator with slats. She turned around quickly and it ripped her finger off. She learned to play the piano, minus one finger. After her husband died, she got a job working for the church downtown. When we were on our mission we would run into her once in a while in the cafeteria. She must have learned to type well without that finger.  She was about to have two knee replacements, a month apart, since she needed to get back to work. Derek, you can check the directory and see if she still works there or has retired.
• Cynthia
• Identical twins: Kathy and Kerri (they were flower girls at our wedding at about age 6). Kathy has M.S. and is in a wheelchair. Interesting that her identical twin doesn't have it.
• Lorraine and Blake were the two youngest of the seven kids.

Ken and Yvonne were my favorite aunt and uncle and I would go stay with them for a week in the summer, when their first 3 kids were little. We would go hunting for night crawlers at night with a flashlight. But I wouldn't touch one now!! Ken and Yvonne got pregnant with a set of twins first, but lost that set of twins. Ken served as Bishop later on. 

There was a family reunion (Howell Cousin Party) in Alpine at Barry and Jan Vencent's home on September 29, 2018. Merrill and Lorrie and Nelva & Arnold & Greg. Mom & Dad and Chris and  Kim and son Cayson (12) and Derek, wife Danielle, and their 3 little girls: Aniston (8), Layla (4), & Noelle (2) made it there. Mom mentioned that Derek met Deborah at the family reunion.