I have the fortune to have gotten the majority of the work in tracing my father's family done by a distant cousin who has devoted herself to preparations and knowledge gathering at each year's reunion in Horatio,Arkansas. I have some other sources such as a videotape done by my brother of the family home and the cemetery. I don't have info on my father's mother's line, though.Two Bishop sisters married two Irvan brothers.My grandmother Vera Beatrice Bishop is one daughter of Horace Greely Bishop and Arrie Mittie Rogers. Didn't get to the Irvan Reunion in Horatio this year, but I have photos from my mother and Misty Wolcott. Lots of Irvans in one place!
As of July 16, 2002, my son Beren Rovay has left us after a long battle with cancer. He was 20.

• Gloria Irvan Family Tree (2 KB)
  

• Irvan Home 2002 (37 KB)
  Built in 1910, the Irvan Home is still standing and central to the annual reunions in Horatio, Arkansas
• My father in Seaside, California, 1948 (16 KB)
  My father standing outside house months before my birth on December 07, 1948.
• Sarah Stover Irvan (89 KB)
  Benjamin Franklin Irvan's first wife and mother to a dozen kids.
• Early photo of my mother, Evelyn Lois Klinsky (17 KB)
  Quite a beauty,Evelyn was raised in Nebraska, but met my father in California.
• Anna Klinsky (12 KB)
  Anna Klinsky was born in the Czech Republic and came to America with family to settle in Nebraska.
• Gloria, Patricia, and Gene (17 KB)
  A familiar childhood photo of me with my aunt Pat and brother Gene
• Beren on phone with Evelyn Irvan on 20th b-day (15 KB)
  Taken on 6-8-2002 in back yard at Aunt & Uncle's in San Jose,California,special party.
• Firmin and Ina Dobbins (26 KB)
  These are my mother's maternal grandparents who lived in Nebraska.
• childhood pic of John William Irvan (11 KB)
  John was probably 10 or so and very solemn.
• old photo Bunder and Jennie Mae (61 KB)
  Irvan family members
• Vera Beatrice Bishop long ago (53 KB)
  My paternal grandmother at a young age.
• Irvan family of four (37 KB)
  Daddy was called Mickey and John and Cheryl weren't born yet.
• Old photo of Vera and Mickey (52 KB)
  I modified this for easier viewing because it was dark.

Gloria Jean Irvan-Rovay
309 Cedar St. PMB#10-B
Santa Cruz, California 95060
A-United States
(831)246-1037
midnightmoonglo@softhome.net

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