Michelle Garvin, Rick Romney and Robyn Anderson

Brian and Karen Anderson

Marion Romney, Walt Wiest, Myrlene Romney Wiest, Susan Romney and Milton Romney

Scott and Jennifer Christensen

Rick Romney and Doug Romney

Becky Collett and Natalie McCullough

Becky Collett, Rosy Neider and Celeste Bird

Wiest Family Singing

Romney Skit October 2008

Becky Collett and Robyn Anderson

Reunion Pics

The Reunion was absolutely fabulous. Thank you to everyone who put together such a wonderful day. We were the lucky beneficiaries of so much hard work. We felt a renewed sense of love and appreciation for our family.

Meeting at the cemetery:

"Come Thou Fount" on the harmonica by Ben Curtis. Loved it!
Rosy Neider

Natalie McCullough
Mike and Jamie Neider

Friday October 3, 2008 A Fabulous Memory!

How can I ever thank everyone for their contributions on Friday? I loved seeing every single person there. I felt the spirit of our forefathers and especially our grandparents Park and Vilate Lee Romney. I love you and thank you for coming and making our reunion a success! Rosemary (Rosy) Curtis Neider

Bart and Mari Wiest Family

Myrlene and Walter Wiest (left)
Bart and Mari Wiest (right)

Michael A. Neider Jr Family

Hello to all! We are Michael and Jamie Neider, son and daughter-in-law of Rosy Neider and grand children of Carrol. We were married almost two years ago and have a beautiful 6 month old baby girl, Annie (well, at least we think she's pretty cute!). She is the apple of our eyes and we just love being parents. We currently live in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We are so excited for the reunion! How fun to meet and get reacquainted with family. We feel so blessed to be surrounded by so much family and have such a wonderful ancestry. We're with Nicole - we are so appreciative of all the hard work everyone has put in to bring this all about. Can't wait to see everyone!

Meet the Nicole Neider Sargent Family

Hi! I am Nicole Neider Sargent. I am the daughter of Rosy Neider and the grand-daughter of Carrol. I am married to Nate Sargent and we have four children...with a new baby due to arrive in November. Our children are: Colt, age 12; Whitley, age 10; Brooke, age 7; and Ted, almost 4. (This picture is 2 years old, but my most current...shame on me!) We live in Heber City, Utah, and love the country here. We appreciate the efforts of all those involved in this blog, the reunion, and the book, and look forward to meeting many of you soon!

Sincerely,Nicole Sargent

Karen Wiest Anderson Family

Hello. This is Karen Wiest Anderson's daughter-in-law and she has asked me to post a picture of our family. The picture above is one we took when we were all together last summer. Karen has 4 sons, 4 daughters, 2 daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, 4 granddaughters, one grandson and a very handsome husband. I am giving birth any second now to her 6th grandchild (we think it is a boy) and I wanted to get this posted before I go into labor.

about 2002
Lowell, Dave
Claudia, Marion, Jill

1997
from back to front:
Lowell, Claudia, Casey, Darron, Tiffani, Scott, Symoni.

This is the whole family posing by the Boise River last fall. Amanda is top left, Scott top center and Blake top right. Jennifer has the red sweater on and next to her is Jin Kim our exchange student from South Korea. Adam is in the black sweat shirt, Bennett is in the blue shirt with the stripe, Aaron is in the green shirt and Howie is the brown fuzzy one with his tongue out

Christensen Family

Hi Romney Cousins,
This is Jennifer Wiest Christensen. I am Myrlene's youngest daughter. I am currently living in Boise, Idaho with my husband, Scott and our five children. Amanda is our eldest child and only daughter. We just took her to BYU two weeks ago and she is really enjoying herself already. Our next oldest is Blake and he is almost 16 and is getting his Eagle Scout award on Sunday! Phew! Adam is next and he is 13 and loves soccer. Bennett is 10 and plays the violin and football. Aaron is our youngest and is 8 years old. He loves to read and is very good at it.
We have lived in Boise for 8 years. Scott started up an Ob/Gyn practice here with another doctor in town. We have also lived in Rochester, NY, Travis AFB, California and O'Fallon, Illinois.
We are all planning to be at the reunion in October and are looking forward to seeing all of you wonderful relatives! Thanks so much to everyone who is making this all possible. We really are blessed to be part of such an amazing family!

Ashley Palmer Rasmussen Family

Ashley Palmer Rasmussen Family

(Cindy Palmer's Daughter/Beatrice Berg's Granddaughter)

Matthew 8, Will 10 Mths, Kirk, Palmer 6, Ashley

We live in the Dallas, Texas area

Patricia Berg Wade Family

Meet the Patricia and David Wade Family

Todd and Stacy

Nathan

Jeff and Danielle

Whitney

Kelsey

Harrison

Hayden

Chad and Angie 

Hayley

Preston

Miles

Natalie and Matt

Christopher

Garrett

Madelyn

Michael and Jill

Lexi

Cameron

Suzanne and Christian

Benton

Danielle (shown with 2 nieces)

David and Pat Wade

Pat passed away from cancer in 2006 and we miss her greatly but know that she is happy that the Romney's are finally getting together for a reunion!  We love you, Mom!

Beatice Romney Berg and her daughers

Pat Berg Wade, Cindy Berg Palmer, Judy Berg Merrill and Beatrice Romney Berg

It's Dinner time! Please RSVP!

•  Kathy Soderborg VanderVeur and Laurel Soderborg Cundick have graciously offered to provide the dinner for the reunion.  It would be very much appreciated and helpful if you could RSVP to laurie_cundick@yahoo.com if your family is planning on eating at the reunion.  This way she can plan for a menu and determine the price.  It will probably be around $10 a person and include a chicken dish, salad, roll and yummy dessert. 
• You may also leave your RSVP on this blog under the comment section.  Thanks!

Mike and Rosemary (Rosy) Curtis Neider

Hi cousins! I am Rosemary Curtis Neider. I am married to Michael A. Neider. I am the daughter of Carrol Romney Curtis, youngest child of Park and Vilate Lee Romney.

This is our family at our son's wedding in 2006. Back row, left to right: Kirstin Knapp, Carrol Norton, Mike and I, Curtis Boyd Neider, Heidi Neider, Nicole Sargent. Front row, left to right: Donna Neider, Jamie Jensen and Michael Neider Jr., Natalie Neider.

We live in Sandy, Utah with our youngest daughter Donna (16 yrs.) and she attends Skyline High School. Curt recently graduated from BYU and married Kelsie Neeley. Heidi graduated from the "U" and now lives with friends in Midvale, Ut. Natalie attends Utah State as a freshman. Nicole and Nate Sargent live in Heber, Utah with their soon to be 5 children. Carrol and Mike Norton live with their 5 children in Gig Harbor, WA. Kirstin and Mike Knapp live in Taylorsville with their two children. Mike and Jamie have a new baby Annie!

I want you to know that I have always loved being a "Romney".

I loved going to the cemetary on Memorial Day as cousins

and then going up the canyon for breakfast.

Grandmother Vilate Romney has always been an important part of my life.

I still remember when I was 12 years old, standing on the corner of Temple Square

and admiring the temple while I ate my first sherbet.

It was evening and the lights were on. We then went back to her apartment to sleep.

She taught me to crochet on Sunday afternoons (after she recovered from the wild

convertible ride with me through unnecesary neighborhoods.) Was she ever a good sport!

I don't remember ever hearing her complain unless

it was the sadness she felt at losing my mother at such a young age.

I honor her memory as well as those of dear aunts, uncles and cousins that have passed on.

I look forward to celebrating the lives of our grandparents with you in October.

PLEASE COME to our reunion and let me give you a hug!

Much love, Rosemary

ROMNEY BOOK, ETC.

Hooray for Israel! I have been reading the "rough draft" of the new Romney Book to be published for our reunion. Just wet your lips folks! ... It is almost unbelievable that we could descend from such remarkable people! I am honestly in awe of our heritage.

Natalie Curtis McCullough has spent countless hours working and reworking this information, making it easy to read and understand. She is always typing, typing, typing. Her daughter Megan Vilate McCullough Clayton has been at her side organizing the pictures for your enjoyment.

Marsha Romney Stratton has spent who knows how much time gathering lots of information and pictures (more than will fit in this book) and putting them on a disk. Hopefully she will make lots of copies for us to be shared at the reunion?!

Robyn Curtis Anderson is hoping you will respond quickly with your final historical drafts on the children of Park and Vilate as well as updated information on births, deaths, spellings, etc. of all descendants of these 9 children. (andersonmarmie@att.net) (if you have questions.)

Cindy Berg Palmer will be making a directory to hand out at the reunion using the information given to Robyn.

It may seem overwhelming what YOU are asked to do, but THANK YOU! Thank you for responding with love and offers of help.

"Many hands make light work!"

"In Unity there is Strength!"

I LOVE MY COUSINS! Rosemary Curtis Neider

Introductions

I thought I would introduce myself on this blog. If you read this...Introduce yourself also on the comment section.

I am Natalie Wade Griffiths.

I am Beatrice Romney Berg's Granddaughter

I am Patricia Berg Wade's Daughter

I am Matthew Griffith's wife

I am Christopher, Garrett and Madelyn's Mother

I live in The Woodlands, Texas (North of Houston)

I want to learn more about my relatives and hopefully through this blog we can become great friends.

100 Year Wedding Anniversary

100 year wedding anniversary of Park and Vilate Lee Romney, our Grandparents.  It will be held this October 3^rd during 
Conference weekend starting in the morning on Friday for the older die hards and again that night.  I’m sure that some will even meet at lunch because they have stored up so much to ask their cousins.  This will be the first Romney reunion of this nature and this size in the history of the clan since Charlemagne tried to bully the Romneys in Old Romney, England(which we visited you know and got the story first hand from the town librarian).  We would like to get all of the third generation to attend(that’s us old geezers), who are now grandparents themselves, and as many fourth and fifth generation children as possible since Romneys don’t hold reunions but once a century.

Blog Time!

Do you have a blog or do your children have a blog? We want to know!!! Won't this be fun to collect all the Romney cousin blogs!

Email me your blog address so we can all get to know each other.

griffiths_natalie@hotmail.com

Do you have something to say on the blog? Email me your email address and I'll set you up as an author and you will have access to post.

Don't want to be an author but want to make a comment...just click on the comment section and type your comment. It's fun! Try it!!

Spiral Bound Family History Book

We will be putting together a book of Park and Vilate Lee and their children and other past relatives. Isn't this exciting?

Did you know that Grandpa Romney had come by train and wagon over 250 miles from Colonial Moreles to be with Grandma Romney when Lettie was born?

Did you know that Derald attended Harvard?

Did you know that George's first words were "back up tom"?

You will learn this and much more in the Park and Vilate Lee Romney Book.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Morning: 9:30 am; A gathering at the cemetery to share memories and visit with family members.

Afternoon: Some may choose to attend the temple during this time. It would be fun to do some sealings this day to remember Grandma and Grandpa. This will not be an organized event but a great idea.

Evening: 6:00 pm; Adult Dinner at 53rd South and 7th West (stake center); Program to follow.

Help!!!

Rosy could really use your help to pull off such a big reunion.  How can you help?  

Please contact her at 801-523-8349 or rosemary@miroind.com

Set up and take down tables and chairs

Table decorations

Clean up

Name tags

Chairs and signs for the cemetery

Floral arrangement

Need a Place to Stay??

Pavillion Inn

5335 College Drive (440) West

Murray Utah 

801-506-8000

This hotel is near by to the Stake Center where the reunion will be held.  When making reservations, ask for the special Romney Rate ($10 off).  

Take 1-15 South to the 5300 South Exit

Getting to know the Milton Romney Family

Uncle Milton and Aunt Carrie just returned from their mission in the Philippines.

Celeste and Alan Bird have three children.

Camden, a returned missionary, living in Provo and engaged to be married in September.  

Vivian Weight, living with her husband B.J. in Springville.  They have two small daughters.  Vivian is Young Women’s president in her ward. 

Catherine Bird, moving to Idaho in September to go to BYU Idaho.

Celeste is the Relief Society President in their Thousand Oaks ward and Alan is in the bishopric.  

Park Romney has three children and lives in Oceanside, California.

Park (Kiko) also lives in Southern California.  Kiko is married with a son. 

Park’s daughter, Audry is married to Trent Homec. They were married in the San Diego Temple.  Trent is a returned missionary and they recently moved from Southern California to the San Francisco Bay area. Trent has a very good job and they have three children.

Park’s youngest daughter is Brooke.  She lives in Lehi with husband Stan Andrus and are expecting a baby.

Dan Romney lives in Blackfoot, Idaho and has four children.

Adam who is now a pharmacist and a really great guy, works at Harmon’s Pharmacy in Sandy and is married to Betsy. Adam went on a mission to Taiwan. They have one son—Max, about a year old. 

Ruth Ann married Ryan Walker.  They have three young children.  Ruth Ann has her Master’s Degree but is a stay home mom at the moment.  Her husband, Ryan is attending Dental School and has recently finished his schooling in Seattle, Washington and they have now moved to Rochester, New York for more specialized training as a pediatric dentist.  They are both very bright people. 

Matt is returned missionary from the Phillipines, lives in Sandy, works and goes to college. He is very sharp.

Daniel is 12 years old and lives with his mother in Las Vegas.  

Vicky Diak lives in Philadelphia and has one son.

Marques is attending an Ivy League law school on the East Coast and is working for a New York law firm.  

Becky Collett lives in St. George, Utah with her husband Joe.  She has three children.

Becky was born in Seattle, Washington, lived in Northern & Southern California. Graduated from high school in Oakland,California.  Becky married Joe Collet in April 1979 in the Los Angeles, Temple. Three children were born in the Los Angeles area. The family moved to Northern Spain in April 1986, they lived in Spain with their young family for 8 ½ years and then moved to Vienna, Austria for three years. The three children attended Spanish schools and all three speak Spanish.  The three children attended the American International School in Vienna where Rachel graduated from high school. 

Rachel, their oldest, has her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah, majoring in Spanish and is now a Certified Court Reporter for the Utah Court System. Rachel’s husband will be starting the Masters Degree program at BYU in August. They are currently re-locating from Farmington, Utah to Provo. Rachel and her husband have one son, Jonathan Fox, 2 yrs. old.

Denise married Spencer Haynes, who has his own business in St. George, called Employ-Ease, which manages payroll for small businesses. They live in St. George and have one daughter, Cairo, who is 20 mths. old. 

Ben, is single with a girlfriend. He lives at home with Becky and Joe and is employed full-time at Employ-Ease by his brother-in-law.

Becky Collet has been working in St George the last 10 years as a legal assistant.  She has also been working on completing her Associates Degree, attending Dixie State College.

Joe Collet was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Las Vegas, served a mission in Brazil, graduated from BYU and graduated from law school at Univ. California Hastings, (San Francisco). He did not become a lawyer but became the business manager for professional golfers, first working in Los Angeles and then later moving with his young family to Spain ( 8 ½ yrs.) and Austria (3 yrs.) for about 11 years total. Joe and his family were invited to move to Spain to become the exclusive business manager for the professional golfer, Seve Ballesteros. During the time they lived in Spain, Joe traveled with the golfer all over the world. Joe was the branch president of their tiny branch in Spain for a few years.  During their time in Europe the family was able to travel to various countries, including England, France, Belgium, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Dubai, Italy, Prague (Czech Republic) and Germany. Joe traveled to many more countries with the golfer for business trips, including Hong Kong, Brunei, Thailand and Japan.