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My mother, Myrtle M. Eutzy Yohe, really needs to be given the credit for all the research on our family to this point. She has been doing it for several years, long before the Internet was available, and quite possibly even before the existence of home PC's. She has many, many books full of hand-written notes and photocopied documents and photos obtained at local court houses, cemeteries, church records, in my grandparents' attic, and any other source she could find.
We have recently (in the last few years) started having a family reunion which is now about the only time I see many of my relatives. My grandparents and father are gone, so we are not really as close as a family should be. I never knew my grandfather as he died when I was an infant.
I remember many wonderful times at the home he and my grandmother had shared, though. Most of my memories are centered on Christmas Eve, which was always spent with my grandmother, and of all the wonderful baked goods and canned foods she always had on hand. Most of the canned goods were grown by her own hands in the beautiful garden in her backyard.
She is still sadly missed by many of my generation, as we all were very close to her. Other members who knew my grandfather and learned a lot from him still greatly miss him, too. They will always be in all of our hearts, and many of us look forward to the day when we will all be together again.
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