Celebrating Aunt Dorothy Gilbertson's 87th birthday

Happy 87th birthday, Aunt Dorothy!

Her birthday was April 15 but we celebrated on the 19th with many family and friends.

Her family presented a program at 2:30pm with many

musical numbers (and jokes by great-grand children).

Aunt Dorothy and her children: Lt to rt-Sue, Dennis, Mary, & Jim with grandson-Mark Elworthy and nephew-Doug S behind them holding this beautiful quilt her mother had started many years ago, then D. had added squares to make it a twin size and now Mary had made it to be a double-bed size. (Sorry 2 photos of same came up. I don't know how to delete that mistake in the midst of composing a blog without deleting everthing.)

Same photo!!
Mary & Dorothy showing me some squares with special memories.

After the wonderful program Aunt Dorothy's family presented to her ,

we visited her room-apartment down the hall. She was an accomplished organist and pianist and had given lessons to many students over the years. I asked if she would honor us with a special number on her piano. She obliged by playing a piece written by Durand I believe.

Listen to the video to a portion of what she played.

Very well done!