In 1991 we took a family vacation to San Jose, Great America and Disneyland. Eric did not go with us, just Michelle, Kali, David and Brent. We visited with Frank’s ex-roommate, Bill Boyce and his wife and family. Bill and his daughter went to Disneyland with us for the day.
February of 1995 Eric and Heather Neilsen were married. Nine months later on October 26th, 1995 they gave us our first grandson on both sides of the family, Camron Kasey Marchant.
September of 1996 Kali married Andrew Spark in the Portland, Oregon temple. We all traveled down for the wedding with the Thelin and Marchant relatives in Portland attending. Jennifer Kaycee Spark was born January 3rd, 1998, our first granddaughter.
January 1997 my step-mother, Mary Jessen Smith Thelin passed away after being in a rest home for three years. We all attended the funeral and the grave-side ceremony. We were sad at her passing but grateful she was not suffering any longer. She had experienced a stroke two years before which paralyzed her vocal chords. It prevented her from talking or eating. Doctors inserted a tube in her stomach to give her nourishment. It was devastating to have her communication taken away. She had always loved to talk and sing. However, when we came at Christmas time and sang Christmas carols, miraculously she was able to sing with us.
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