Happy 50th Anniversary!


Dear Mom and Dad,

We've spent many hours going through boxes, drawers, albums, envelopes, and files full of 50 years of photos, and have thoroughly enjoyed seeing these captured moments of your life together. Some we hadn't seen before, some made us laugh, some made us tear up, and some took our breath away. We hope you will enjoy experiencing them again in this way too. And, we hope you don't mind that we've shared these few glimpses of your amazing life with your closest friends and family so they can help you celebrate how blessed you truly are to have the privilege of 50 years of marriage.

You have been such a wonderful example of marriage. We've seen you live out "for better--for worse, for richer--for poorer, in sickness and in health.” We’ve watched you love and cherish each other while raising us, running a company, making your house a home, both battling and beating cancer, changing careers, caring for loved ones, retiring, grandparenting, and creating a life-list longer than we can type out or include in this space. We know that marriage is not all fairy tales, and we are grateful that you have worked hard at it and kept your pledge of faith to each other. You’ve done it beautifully, with the help of the Lord.

We are celebrating with you! Congratulations!!! 50 years of marriage is a badge of honor you deserve, and it comes with more blessings than can be counted. We love you.

- Taryn and Travis

Making Music

Music has always been an important part of daily life in Dave and Vonda's home, and they have encouraged and supported music in the lives of their kids and grandkids as well.  It is a treasured legacy for the whole family.


Dave as Drum Major at Churubusco High School 1967
Dave sang in the Cleftones in high school.

 He also sang in the Purdue University Glee Club while a student there.  In 1993, the whole family attended the 100th anniversary concert to watch Dave sing with the Glee Club again!



A serenade

A unique tradition, the McEowen family all play Christmas music together at family gatherings during the Holidays. 



After everyone's "chops" wear out, we sing through the Reader's Digest Family Christmas book or play carols on Juanita's full set of handbells.




Taryn and Travis during a youth Christmas service at Churubusco Church of the Nazarene

Taryn and Travis in high school band

Taryn marching as drum major of the 'Busco band


Travis and Taryn both participated in New Era show choir (an evolution of the Cleftones) at 'Busco HS in the 1990's.

Taryn as Princess Tuptim in The King and I at CHS 1995

Dave and Vonda at Taryn's junior voice recital at Capital University 1998


Dave and Vonda after Taryn's solo senior voice recital 
at Capital University Conservatory of Music 1999

Dave and Travis singing in the kitchen

Krampa singing with baby Annah, early 2001

singing hymns to Annah

Vonda and Annah singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas






Sylvia

Annah

Tessa practicing at Mamaw and Pampaw's

spontaneous family Christmas carol sing



Trumpeters!

Grayson and Bryce started making music early on too!

A wonderful gift --
Many tears were shed when Dave & Vonda presented their granddaughter Annah with her great-grandmother Nedra McEowen's violin. 
VIDEO:

a visit to Sweetwater Sound during spring break

watching Annah in her first high school musical

Bryce and Caeden playing on their Great Grandma McEowen's piano

supporting Annah in her sophomore musical, Little Shop of Horrors 

One of the first things Annah and Tessa like to do when they see each other at their grandparents' house is play piano together.
 

Tessa at her piano recital


Tessa, Grayson, and Bryce in their church Christmas program





Annah and Sylvia singing the National Anthem before a football game at their high school
VIDEO:



July 2018, Dave and Vonda surprised Annah and Sylvia by coming to see them in their concerts at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan!

Annah as drum major of her high school marching band

Sylvia playing her cello in youth symphony

McEowen family Christmas band at Thanksgiving 2018

watching Tessa in her school Christmas concert - December 2018



VIDEO:
(Tessa is at the top right of the bleachers.)


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