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Revised: 20 April 2016 Published: 20 April 2016 |
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5 February 2015 |
Ladies of the ‘Women’s Library Club’ of Lake Arthur, LA! |
# 36 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’/ 21. My mom was a member of this |
wonderful group and I am so happy they are here! |
Heritage Workshop |
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21 February 2015 |
Bridal Shower for the bride-elect of my |
nephew of New Orleans to be held on Arthur Avenue/30 women (9 men!) |
Arthur Avenue Heritage #37 Tour then offered! |
AAHT |
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09 March 2015 |
#14 ‘Place Based Heritage Education’ Day on Arthur Avenue |
‘Young Historians Club’, St. Margaret Catholic School, Lake Charles/Teacher-Kayla Booth/23 |
Place Based Heritage Education |
Heritage Workshop |
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14 March 2015 |
Completed paper and pics listed in 300 ‘Journal and Binders’ |
Link age 16 to age 67…52 years of gathering, preserving, sustaining and making relevant and I’m not yet finished!! |
Heritage and Archival Special Collections! |
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17 March 2015 |
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, artifacts donated |
to the CSPH Heritage Center; received from his widow ‘Katrin.’ |
CSPH Heritage Center |
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18 March 2015 |
Catholic diocesan television taping |
Airing: April, May, June 2015 |
Segment: Lead, Kindly Light! |
Diocesan Television |
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28 March 2015 |
Wedding of the first child of my youngest |
brother. Invited to be Reader 1…an honor and privilege indeed! |
St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, |
New Orleans, LA |
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3 April 2015 |
#38 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ for |
Isaac Jared Edwards of Chapel Hill, NC…a special friend of Los Pontons! |
A Pilgrimage Commences! |
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10 April 2015 |
#39 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ D.A.R.’s |
of Lake Charles, LA/10 |
Alice Tippin, Coordinator |
Heritage Workshop |
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15-19 April 2015 |
Conference trip to Las Vegas, NV Forward to |
visit Holy Trinity Abbey, Huntsville, Utah/ Trappists. On to Salt Lake City |
surround mountain drives then home! |
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23 April 2015 |
#15 Place Based Heritage Education Day on Arthur Avenue |
Redemptorist Catholic 4th Grade Social Studies Unit Class, Crowley, LA/29 |
Place Based Heritage Education |
Heritage Workshop |
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24 April 2015 |
My dear father’s 98th birthday In The Light! |
Thank you for being my father who brought me up in the faith and |
provided for me wholistically! I named my |
son after your father! |
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14 May 2015 |
Cantor Mass in Amelia Manor Nursing Home, |
Lafayette; Fr. Donald Pelous, Celebrant. We shall sing El Pescador! |
A grand lunch post-Mass catching up on all! |
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20 May 2015 |
Dear Renee added yet another shelf in my |
home study to hold the canon of Thomas Merton and Monastic Spirituality books. I now have room |
for Journals and Binders through to the year 2029; I will be 82 years of age!! |
Thank you RAR for a priceless gift! |
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23 May 2015 |
# 40 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with |
the wonderful CDA ladies of Westlake, LA./9 women & 4 men! |
Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour |
Heritage Workshop |
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25 May 2015 |
50th Year High School Commencement! |
St. Maria Goretti Catholic High School, Lake Arthur, LA. There were |
20 in our 1965 graduation class/seven girls! |
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29 May 2015 |
Luncheon meeting with the ‘Five Points of Light”- |
GFSingers ladies to discuss Germanfest rehearsal and performances: Josie Thevis, Anna |
Kormesser, Simone Dubois, RAR, ABMP! Fun! |
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30 May 2015 |
Jubilee Eucharist Celebration, Villa de |
Matel, Houston, TX…Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word! |
The St. Pat’s Sisters! |
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02 June 2015 |
Meeting with Philip Fabacher, M.D. at the German Heritage |
Museum initiating a confluent ‘Roberts Cove Heritage Signage’ Project for Germanfest 2016! |
Roberts Cove Heritage Signage |
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06 June 2015 |
‘Germanfest Folk Singers’ performing for |
retired Jesuits, St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, LA! 12 priests! |
Singers lunch afterward! 21 Folk Singers at table! |
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14 June 2015 |
‘JHensgens Family Reunion’ in Welsh, LA |
Hosted by the Family of Herman Lawrence & Barbara ‘Leona’ Hensgens-Berken-Smaihall |
17th JHensgens Family Reunion 2015 |
18th Reunion 2017: Nicholas Anthony Hensgens Family |
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24 June 2015 |
Catholic Diocesan Television Taping |
Airing: July, August, September 2015 |
Segment: Lead, Kindly Light! |
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26 June 2015 |
#41 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with |
the ‘Kinder Garden Club’ ladies!/11 |
Initiated/Leavon Ladner Jane Unkel, Coordinator |
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27 June 2015 |
Annual ‘Patriots’ Ball’, Civic Center, Lake Charles, LA |
honoring all U.S.A. military men and women in uniform having served, serving and who will serve! |
My husband will be in dress blues! I am so proud, so grateful! |
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10- 14 July 2015 |
‘National Association of Oblate Directors and |
Oblates’ meeting, Subiaco Abbey, AR. So excited and humbled to attend. |
Lkl.net!!! ‘In His Time!’ |
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17 July 2015 |
Christian Joseph Monlezun, nephew, |
‘satellite marked’ the gravesite of his paternal great-great-grandmother |
Cypress Point, LA. RAR dug 12 layers of bricks |
down covered with silt 3 ½’ 130 years ago this year! |
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16 July 2015 |
My mother-in-law’s 100th birthday celebrating it in |
The Light! She was a wonderful suegra and paternal grandmother for |
our son whose middle name “Adolfo’ is for her |
father! |
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16 July Birthdays! |
Our wonderful son celebrates his 33rd |
birthday and the very next day his Dad celebrates his 79th! Both look |
fantastic and are healthy! Thank You, God! |
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31 July 2015 |
Lee Joseph Monlezun 30th Anniversary year of |
death 1917 – 1985…my wonderful father. Rest in peace, dear one. This year we placed an iron cross and |
laid flowers on your paternal grandmother’s grave 130 years after |
her death. She is now ‘marked!” Cypress Point, LA |
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01August 2015 |
#42 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with |
St. Leo IV Catholic Daughters of America coordinated by Mary Jo |
Olinger, cousin! They are so welcomed!/7 |
Heritage Workshop |
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01 August 2015 |
At 9:00 a.m. Pascal Monlezun descendants/3 sat around the kitchen |
table with their binders and folders seeking information about our lineage; we met for the first time |
when they walked in the back door!! They then joined the ‘Heritage Tour’ |
with the RCove contingent…all together!! |
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09 August 2015 |
A visit with my paternal second cousin, Enez Monlezun-Marx, age 98 |
inquiring of stories about her paternal grandfather, my great-uncle |
and our sharing pics of her grandmothers’ gravesite |
buried 130 years ago! |
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09 & 23 August 2015 |
Germanfest Folk Singers Rehearsals |
Roberts Cove, LA |
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14 August 2015 |
Heritage investigative trip to the Abbeville, LA |
Courthouse to search records on my paternal great-grandfather while he |
and family resided at Cypress Point, LA |
1876- … |
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06/27 September 2015 |
Gernanfest Folk Singers Rehearsals |
Roberts Cove, LA |
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10-17 September 2015 |
Wonderful visit in Chapel Hill,/Cary, NC with my son, IJEdwards and |
family and friends along with a tour of the lab at UNC Dental School where Isaac Jared built up a wax |
tooth with the patience of Job! Beautiful and prestigious campus. They |
also introduced me to ‘juicing!’ I’m in! |
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23 September 2015 |
Catholic Diocesan Television Taping |
Airing: November & December 2015 |
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3 & 4 October 2015 |
Roberts Cove Germanfest! |
Direct ‘Germanfest Folk Singers’(#5) and Sunday Mass with St. Leo IV Choir. Proceeded to escort the retired |
Jesuits, a novice and their Activities Coordinator around the grounds!! |
Twas wonderful! |
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19 October 2015 |
Induction into CDA St. Katherine Drexel Court, Lower Cameron Parish. |
Court re-established post-H. Rita. In reverence and thanksgiving I am joining in honor of my foremothers |
in The Broussard/Miller Family. Our mother court is CDA’s in Lake Arthur!! |
Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour |
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19 October 2015 |
‘Heritage Studies Series One’ ~ At The Veranda and Carriage House |
at Graywood, LC. 25 hearty souls from Independent and Assisted Living residences. |
Judy Naquin, Coordinated |
Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour |
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23 October 2015 |
# 49 Silent Retreat on Arthur Avenue/10 |
Director, staff & volunteers – ‘New Life Counseling Ctr.’, Lake Charles |
Silent Retreat Series |
Heritage Workshop |
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30 October 2015 |
#43 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with the |
SWLA Cattle Women’s Association of SWLA! RAR facilitated!/7 |
Desere Richard, Coordinator |
Heritage Workshop |
130 |
06 November 2015 |
#16 ‘Place Based Heritage Education’ on Arthur Avenue! |
St. Peter Catholic Elementary, Gueydan, LA/15 students and 13 adults. Constance Victoria did it! |
Place Based Heritage Education |
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10 November 2015 |
‘Heritage Talk’ ~ with the Retired Jesuits, |
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, LA |
…to be rescheduled in 2016… |
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17 November 2015 |
134 years ago today the Christian Hensgens |
and Franz Anton Reiners families arrived in New Orleans, LA |
from Germany to Roberts Cove, LA |
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26 November 2015 |
HRP and I celebrate Thanksgiving in N.C. with |
our son and Isaac Jared at the Edwards Farm…family galore and pics with all beautifully attired. |
Home, barn and animals in a beautiful and undulated landscape. |
I gave Pam Edwards Edelweiss seeds! |
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28 November 2015 |
My dear Mom’s 15th year In The Light! |
Miss her daily; pray to her daily. Rest in Peace, dear one. Thank you for being my mother, my first |
teacher of the faith of our ancestors, 1600 to present! |
Vigil of The First Sunday in Advent |
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06 December 2015 |
75th Year Celebration of ‘Handel’s Messiah”, |
Bulber Auditorium., LC. My sister Constance Victoria donated tons |
of hours toward this special performance! |
Our parents loved Handel’s “Messiah”! |
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16 December 2015 |
Catholic Diocesan Television Taping Dates |
Airing January 2016 |
Segment: Lead, Kindly Light! |
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23 December 2015 |
Family Christmas Gathering! AAP and IJE home for Christmas/his first in LA! 66 in attendance-60 direct descendants/6 guest |
As of March 2015…#80 Monlezun/Hensgens total family members – 51 direct descendants! |
Second year “Sayings of Mom and Dad on a Candy Cane!” #50-100 |
Family Chronicles! |
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27 December 2015 |
Anna ‘Gertrude’ Hensgens-Monlezun’s 94th birthday! |
(1921-2000)…my wonderful mother. Rest in Peace, dear one. |
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Feast of the Holy Family! |
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Totals to 06 November 2015 |
Link Categories:
Silent Retreats: 1989 Virginia and Washington, D.C. & Commenced 1990- Lake Charles:
08 May 1990 to 23 October 2015 on Arthur Avenue:
Spiritual Talks penned “Speak A Word!” 07 May 1990 to 11 October 2014:
‘Heritage and Archival Special Collection!’ Links:
‘Journals & Binders’ age 16 to date, age 67!:
‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tours’ 10 February 2009 to 30 October 2015:
‘Place Based Education Day’ 01 May 2009 to 06 November 2015:
Family Chronicles:
Events on Arthur Avenue:
Number of persons through the home 03 March 2001 to 23 December 2015: |
# of events, categories or participants:
Total - #701 Retreatants
#49 Silent Retreats - #332 Retreatants
#41
#25 Categories
#314
#43 #398 persons toured!
#5 school + 15 visits = #410 participants
9 Lineages, a ‘Family Heritage Sequence’ and one “’So! You Want to Organize a Family Reunion’ link!!
#131 to include Family Christmas Gathering 2015
2,048 men, women and children! |
January 2001 to 06 November 2015: 14 years x 52 Fridays in a year = 728 days in the Home
130 events in the home (x 24 for we spend 2 days and one night for each event) = 3,120 glorious hours spent on Arthur Avenue…to date!
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2015: ARTHUR AVENUE BUILT IN 1904 = SHE IS 111 YEARS OLD! |
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01 March 1995 to 03 August 2015 |
Medical Resource Books: |
Given away: 1,406 |
Volunteer hours – 3 hours per teaching = 4,686 hours
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27 May 1990 to 16 December 2015 |
‘Lead, Kindly Light’ Catholic Diocesan Television 1990 to December 2015: |
#474 interviews |
To contact, write and interview – 3 hours per guest = 1,422 hours |
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March 2001 to August 2015 |
14th year serving as ‘Eucharistic Minister’ CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital (Dept. of Pastoral Care ) and tending ‘The Heritage Center’ est. 2003 |
In 2015…Invited to assist with the ‘Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey Heritage Project… in process… |
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3 & 4 October 2015 |
5th year directing Germanfest Folk Singers!...as well as… |
this year hosted retired Jesuits and a Novice, St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, LA!! Was wonderful! |
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31 December 2015 |
Leave of absence: EM/CSPH, MRB/ Teaching Groups & Masterworks Choral |
Focus on Binders Galore (!) to Publish, Silent Retreat Series and Heritage Studies Series, etc!!! |