Month: March 2010

Our family began having its family reunion when we were still living in Ohio, and the first year we came from several different states to celebrate our connection. But the most wonderful part of the reunion was that the patriarch, Felix L. McHaney, my dad, was there to celebrate with us. For the first several years he was an inspiration to us. At his advanced age he still flew alone from Memphis, Tennessee, to Atlanta where either my sister in Augusta or I in Aiken picked him up and escorted him to the beach. Most years we had three big houses because there were so many of us….around 30. Believe me, he ate his full share of shrimp, even telling my husband once, “Bill, we’ve run out of shrimp. It’s time to buy more.”

Having kids never came easy to Stacey Yarborough and her husband. Yet, with the help of modern technology…