Spending Time with the Derrs

Every few months, I have to spend a few days with the Derr and Pentz Family. I consider myself  one of the family. Many of them feel the same way.  Kathy and I do a lot of fighting. That is just our nature.

We are in Northern Pennsylvania. I call this place "Derr Country."  

When Geraldine Derr, her mother was still alive, I would come in saying hello when passing through the living room and go directly to her refrigerator to eat her food. Sometimes she would come into the kitchen and cook me something to eat.  If she did not, her daughters would cook me a meal.

I just went to her brother's funeral, Leroy C. Pentz, at St. John Lutheran Church in Montgomery Pa not to long ago. The Pentz family told me that I am one of the family and that I am always welcome.

That would not have been the case if this was the year 1780. My people, the Cherokees fought along side the British. The Indians killed many of the settlers including many members of the Peter Pentz family. Peter, a Revolutionary War Veteran who served under George Washington, put a price on the Indians head in Pennsylvania after that war. So I would not have been near the Pentz family, 235 years ago.

This is Kathy Derr of Washingtonville, Pa. As I was waiting for the Little League World Series to start, we went to the PPL Lake near Washingtonville to see the Amish and the scenery.

 

After this, we went to Lyn's house, Kathy's sister to see the start of the Little League World Series. Then we went to Kathy's other sister, Deb house. I spent a lot of time with Lydia another sister.

 

I had to do my lobbying for the next girl that will come as a Great Grand Daughter under Lydia. I want someone to name the next girl in that line Lydia. Why? Because Big Lyd as they call her is named after her Grandmother Lydia Pentz. Big Lydia's child is named Lydia (Little Lyd). So to keep the chain going, I want to see a Little Little Lyd. Little Lyd's son said that he will name his daughter Lydia once he gets married. He is still in public school. That means that I will remind him of what he said in the future.  

 

It is Kathy's sister Linda who can pick up two full size tables at one time and through them in a truck. Deb's husband is in the Pennsylvania history books as one of the greatest fishermen in the state.   

 

So this family has a lot of Pennsylvania history behind them.