Dad's 50th Class Reunion

We traveled to Arizona to celebrate's Crismon's 50th High School Reunion with his childhood friends in Ajo. Gratefully, it was held the latter part of October, so it wasn't as hot, however, they were having a heat wave so it was over 100 degrees for most of the time. I love the good people of Ajo, and it was fun to get acquainted with his friends. Crismon was the student body president his senior year at Ajo High School. He holds many choice memories in Ajo. It was nice to see how many of his friends had fond memories of him and shared many good things about him and about all the Lewis family.

A special treat was staying with Malin & Sally and having some good visits with them, watching Jacob play in his last home football game as the quarterback. Beverly Nelson, Sally's Mom lives with them, too, and she is always so delightful to visit with. She has that radiant smile and happy nature. Esther and her children were living there, too, while they try to sell their home in Showlow. Jesse came for the weekend to be with his family and that was good to have him. Wick & Jace came down unexpectedly from Mesa to support Jacob in his last home game. We had great fun enjoying many flavors of ice cream thanks to Malin and the Dessert Dairy.

Our first night there we stayed in the Curley School, the stately stucco school where Crismon attended school from 1st through 8th grade. It has been remodeled to house apartments for visiting artisans, mostly snowbirds who live there during the winter. They've done a nice job in making the apartments very comfortable. After staying Thursday night in one of the apartments (near Crismon's first-grade classroom) we moved Friday night to stay in Malin & Sarah's home next to the Dairy, as they were out of town. This was the home where Crismon's parents were living in 1948 when Crismon was born.

On Saturday morning we attended the annual Ajo Red-and-White weekend, designed to bring former Ajo residents of all ages back to their roots. It allowed Crismon to re-connect with many former friends, some he hadn't seen in literally decades.

Early that afternoon we returned to the Phoenix area to catch our plane home. We were able to squeeze in a quick visit to Mesa where my sister Meredith & husband Norm were serving as the Mesa Temple Visitors Center Directors. Their daughter Lindsey was there that weekend with her new baby visiting them, too. We also met up with Romeo and Joyce Betita, our dear friends who moved to Arizona from Gresham three months earlier, for dinner. They then shuttled us to the airport. It was a fast, but fun trip.