52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - Week 28 (July 9-15): Random

Born July 1, 1939, Owasso, Michigan. 

(Repost from 2019 THEN with updates for 2023 NOW)

THEN: Happy eightieth birth anniversary to Doug, my ex-husband, father of my two oldest sons!

THEN: So glad to have shared part of our lives together.  And I am thrilled that he's made it to the big eight oh.  He is happily married to Millie now. They have a houseful of cats (I'm told.)

NOW: Millie died a couple of years ago. Doug cleared out his house of a lifetime of things and moved into an apartment in Sun City Center, FL. 

THEN: Birth of Russell Heym, August, 1967...Doug then Barbara then Marty holding Russ.

THEN: Doug and Millie facing the camera, with granddaughter Caroline to the right. Millie is lit by her phone.  The dinner before Barbara Baker and Marty Heym's wedding April 22, 2019..

THEN: The Heym family reunion in CA...Doug on left, then Marty then Russ

THEN: Doug flew in a bi-plane, perhaps his 60th or 70th birthday?

We have actually something in common these days, besides our grown sons and grandchildren!
Doug was glad to take over as editor of my Heym Family Ancestry tree which was for our sons, if they ever wanted to know that side of their family.  And I was glad to give Doug the connection to the Mayflower, which he'd just heard of, but didn't have data for.

THEN: Russ, Doug and Marty, Thanksgiving 2017.

THEN: Marty and Doug.

THEN: A bunch of soccer lovers who met at my apartment in St. Augustine to go to Jacksonville for a soccer match... Left to right, Tai Rogers, Barb Rogers, standing behind her a friend of Tai's from Eckerd College, Marty Heym, Millie Heym, Doug Heym, Michelle Naglieri, Russ Heym. Probably 1997-2000.  It was after the World Cup was held in Orlando (1994), thus the US shirts on my 3 sons, but after Tai started college thus his friend coming for the game (in 1997) And it was before Russ and Michelle married in 2001!

THEN: Photos below that were posted on Facebook, of his party in 2019.

 Marty & Doug Heym

 Marty's kids, Michael Thurston, Cayenne Heym, Will Heym

 He's finally an old man!

Doug and Millie Heym

 Better photo with everyone looking at camera!  Marty, Doug, unknown, Michael, Cayenne, Will, Millie, Barbara Baker, Bev Baker.

NOW:

Last Christmas (2022) Russ and his wife and 3 girls visited Doug, and Marty and his three children joined them for the following photo. Wonder who the photographer was.

NOW: Early in 2023 Doug's brother Rick died, and in April he and son Marty went to MA to attend the memorial for him.

NOW: Father's Day 2023, Doug with Marty. Since Marty lives right in Brandon, close to where Doug now lives, they can get together for holidays.

NOW: And here's a birthday photo which was shared on FB this July for Doug's 84th.

Marty, Doug, Michael, and Will seated, with cousin Margaret Heym Lemon and her husband standing. I'm not sure the cousin connection between Doug and Margaret, but they've been getting together since the family reuinion in California. And I don't know when that was held, maybe 2015?

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