From an email sent to Happ’s on January 4th, 2016:
HAPP FAMILY REUNIONJULY 23, 2016VETERANS ACRES, CRYSTAL LAKE, ILWe have the date for our reunion for 2016. Please plan to attend and spend a day with your family.Please forward this email to your family so we can have a great turn out this year.See you July,Dotty Malin Sutfindotaug7_at_yahoo.com (Replace “_at_” with “@”.)
My thanks to Dotty and her family for taking up this task for another year. My wife Nancy and I really enjoyed the Happ Picnic last year.
I hope many family members can attend this July. Also, if you are able to attend, please contact Dotty and offer her any assistance you are able.
Gerard Happ Jr. (Gerry) and my wife Carol will coming from Phoenix, Arizona to attend this year’s picnic. See you there!
Hi I am so excited to attend the Happ Family Picnic for the first time ever+! I will meet my cousins from the original group that landed here in l843 and see Gerard once again to thank him for all the years he put into compiling this Family Tree way before Ancestry.com was around. My husband, Jim and I are from Phoenix where it is 112 today. I wish my mother Preissel Happ Keeler and her brother, William Peter Happ, Jr. and John Henry Happ and her sister, Celeste Happ Fraser could make it as well as their children. I will take lots of pictures. See you Saturday, God willing.
Fantastic picnic.
We left just as the rain came.
White Elephant auction is such fun. Thanks to all who put the event together.