A Successful Radding Family Reunion

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Over 60 Raddings gathered at Lake Tahoe and had a great time. People renewed old friendships, started new friendships, shared old stories, and started new ones. Best of all we made a commitment to do it again in a couple of years [to be announced].

Jenny Radding Mann and Jerry Mann came up a big winner at Reunion 2.0 [see picture above—Jerry proudly holding his Hyatt Lake Tahoe casino payout of a whopping 40 cents]. The Raddings must be the last of the big spenders judging from the photo of Linda Radding spending her last dollar at the Hyatt casino. I'd be surprised if the casino ever lets the Raddings in again.

The third photo shows Eugene Radding, the oldest Radding at the reunion, with his daughter Jenny Radding Mann along the late. This spry 85-year old hiked 300’ down and back to this point. We should all be in his shape when we get that age.

The Moses Radding paintings [shown below in an earlier blog posting] are now in the possession of Herb Radding, thanks to the help of Peter Radding. Herb brought them to the reunion where they were displayed. They look much better for real than the skewed photos previously posted here

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Eva and Pearl gave a genealogy update. They found more Raddings and are hot on the trail of confirming the missing branch of the family, the Racusin line. They also provided more details further confirming the connection between the Jerome and Joseph lines of the family. Without a doubt, we are ONE family.

Fay Radding volunteered to head up the next reunion committee. She will need lots of help with the research, planning, and preparation. So, if you can help out, please contact Fay on Facebood at the Radding family group.

Danny Radding, a high school student from Alameda CA, set up a Radding Family group on Facebook. Every Radding is encouraged to join. It is free. You will need a Facebook account (go to www.facebook.com), which also is free. Everyone who is part of the Radding Family group will be able to post photos for all to see and put up messages for the group. Details will follow. I will continue this blog for now but more of the interesting stuff should move to Facebook, where it is easier for everyone to participate. I already joined the Radding Family Group.

Hopefully Raddings who attended the reunion will post their thoughts in the comments that follow this blog. Just click the comment link and follow the prompts. (You'll have to identify yourself; we don't allow anonymous comments.) I hope Raddings will also post comments and photos on the Radding Facebook page. And it doesn’t all have to be about the reunion. Our FacebookFacebook page. group should become an ongoing Radding discussion and family celebration. Every Radding is welcome to put comments and photos on the Radding Family

In addition, I will put up more photos from the reunion in the next blog posting. Eva will put a selection on Facebook too.