By: Evlynn Spencer Beelman

Decended: Wife of Harry S. Beelman > Harry T. Beelman > George T. Beelman

THOUGHTS OF PAST BEELMAN REUNIONS

I entered the family in January, 1947. My first reunion was August of that year and I was carrying our first child Karen Elizabeth 'Becky' Beeman Stauffer. Harry is now gone since December of 1994, but he never missed a reunion fron the time he was born in 1918 except for six years of military service, first in the U.S. Cavalry and then in the Army Air Corps. During our marriage we enjoyed many happy reunions together, and I gradually became aquainted with several different members of the family. There were at least 40 - 50 members attending in those days, so it took several tries to remember individuals that I'd met (since only meeting once per year).

SPECIAL MEMBERS

I remember meeting 'Kitty' with her picture hat and long white gloves. And I remember George Lippert, whom Harry said took him (a returned soldier - before he & I were married) around town to find someone on a Sunday who would give him a beer. They eventually ended up at George's house where George kept warm beer on his basement steps. Also, I remember John Beelman, president of the Plymouth Bank, and his wife who traveled all over the country by herself with maybe another person in an automobile. She stopped by our house on Plymouth Street in Bucyrus while on one of her trips. I remember talking to Gail Beelman and his wife, Laverda, at several different reunion, plus Gwen Cox and her husband, Donald, who stopped in to see us at our Forest Hill home. Another relative I became friends with over the years was Ruth Bilger.

SPECIAL MEMORIES

A few of the best reunions I remember were when several of us had small children and we met in the shelter in the Park. It fell to me to look after all the children during the business meeting, so I started taking them swimming and we had a great time. Soon they were old enough to join the adults and that was the end of the swimming. Another memorable event was when after on of the reunions,all of us toured the old homestead on (St. Rt.) 224 and my immediate family went home to Bucyrus by way of Rt. 224 and we stopped by the Beelman cemertery which was a Quaker cemetery. It was interesting to find several Beelman headstones.