Christmas 2010
Greetings to our Family and Friends:
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the
government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
As we enter another Advent season time we pray that you are joining
with us in preparing for celebrating His birth and its meaning for
us all. We hope that
your year has gone well.
For the Henn family it has been a year of mixed emotions.
Werner’s Mother is finally at peace, without pain or
discomfort. She passed
away on January 30th,
on their 72nd
Wedding Anniversary. Her
family was with her and misses her very much.
She has been interred here in Bellevue in our church’s
Memorial Garden.
In May we traveled to Dad’s last pastorate in Clayton Valley, CA,
where we celebrated Mom’s life.
It was also an opportunity for the whole Henn family to
reunite and enjoy a short time together with excursions to the top
of Mt Diablo and a daylong tourist trip to San Francisco.
It was great that all of the grandchildren could be together.
It was also time for us to renew our friendship with
Thomasina’s sister Micheline and her family.
Dad, despite ill health, enjoyed and relished being back
together with his friends from the Clayton Valley church.
He is doing well now and remains as active as he can within
the retirement home. We
all are looking forward to Ralph joining us for Christmas.
We enjoyed a couple of local excursions during the year, seeing some
local scenery that we had not seen before. The first was a visit to
the Olympic Peninsula, seeing Hurricane Ridge and hiking in the Hoh
Rain Forest. Carol’s brother Tim and his wife De Etta also came this
fall and we viewed the beautiful Mt Baker area as well as a ferry
ride to Vancouver Island, visiting Butchart Gardens and Victoria.
The fall colors and flowers were fantastic. Our long distance trip
this year was to visit Brian, Tyler and Alyssa over Labor Day. We
enjoyed a day trip to Callaway Gardens, local school events, and
activities with the grandkids. Mark and his family continue to live
in the Tucson area, keeping busy with their many activities. We hope
to visit them early next year.
We also enjoyed a couple of visits from George and his wife
Li (our Chinese cousins).
Carol’s cousin, Carla and her husband John from Montana also
visited this fall. We
have not seen her since our wedding, 48 years ago.
To view pictures and blogs of our activities, see our
website:
www.FamilyHenn.com.
Carol and I continue to enjoy our musical pursuits. We again sang
with Seattle Pro Music for their winter concert. The highlight was
the Frank Martin Mass for
Double Choir. Our other music enjoyment continues to be our
regular singing in our church choir. Last May we sang two
performances of Haydn’s
Creation to full houses. We also sing with the Ensemble, a
smaller group of 30 singers from the Chancel Choir. This group sings
challenging selections from across the centuries. Carol continues to
play the piano for our enjoyment.
Werner took a soccer fling to help with the Referee Staff at the US
Regionals in Albuquerque in June. It was a great opportunity to meet
the many people that he has been working with from afar for the past
ten years. He did experience a minor accident while there, having a
“violent separation from a golf cart” that he is still recovering
from. It did provide a
moderate amount of entertainment for the referee contingent at the
meeting that night.
We wish you all a Christmas of Joy as we celebrate Christ’s birth
and a New Year filled with Happiness and Blessings.
Our Best Wishes,
