BETHEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SEATTLE, WA 1920 - 2011

Last Service at Bethel Presbyterian Church

Sunday, July 31, 2011

The congregation merged with Trinity

Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA

Bethel Presbyterian

Church, Seattle, WA

Established 1920

Closed July 31, 2011

91 years

My Dad, Milton I. Henkle

helped to build this church

building in the 1950's.

Sign on the side of the

Educational Wing

Rev. Waldo E. Hancock, Jr.

Corner of the Geneva Room and

looking toward the old manse

where the Rev. W.E.

Hancock family lived.

The Fireside Room

The Educational wing.

Front

Inside the Sanctuary

Back

All the pastors that

served at Bethel

through the years.

I was under

Rev. Charles Parrott,

Rev. William Floyd Kuykendall

and Rev. Waldo E. Hancock.

The old piano that

our youth group

spent many a fun

times around back

in the '50's.

The Bethel Mailbox!

The Ebenezer Pillar at Bethel.

My mom contributed a rock

for this.

Many memories were made in this church. Our family began attending Bethel in 1943 when the church met at 105th and Phinney. My mom and Dad and sister's memorial services were held here and Bob and I were married in this church. Bev was married here twice. I sang in the choir, was active in the youth group, taught 6th grade Sunday School here. It was our second home. It is hard to day good bye. But our memories will live on for ever.

ALL FAMILY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT SANDY HOOK

SANDY HOOK, WHIDBEY ISLAND, WA

Saturday, July 30, 2011

We had a wonderful time celebrating primarily my (Lynn) 75th birthday but also grand nephew, Tyler Chartrand who turned 6 on the same date as me. Also Karen's 36th birthday (June 29th) and Julie's 43rd birthday (August 3rd). We celebrate everybody's birthday and have one great big party however....we forgot to sing Happy Birthday...oooppps!!

Kevin surprised me and all of us really by flying up on my birthday July 29th to join us for the celebration.

The family members who came were:

Bob and me

Brian

Linda and Naomi

Julie

Karen and Steve, Rebecca and Sarah

Lisa and Kiera (Nik spend the day boating with his brother, Mark who, sadly is not expected to live much longer.)

Kevin

Lleana & Bud Davison (cousin)

Poppe Triance (cousin)

Kurt & Sandra and Spencer Chartrand (nephew)

Derek & Rose and Alexis, D.J. and Tyler Chartrand (nephew)

The Nephews:

Kurt and Sandra and Spencer Chartrand (right)

Derek and Rose, Alexis, Tyler and D.J. Chartrand

(left)

Cousins:

Poppe, Lynn & Lleana

The Self Kids all grown up!

Karen, Julie, Kevin, Lisa, Brian & Linda

The Original Self Family:

Karen, Julie, Kevin, Bob & Lynn, Lisa, Brian and Linda

Linda

Linda surprised me by playing her great grandfather's (Ira M. Henkle) handmade violin for me at sunset. She had new strings, bridge and one of the handcarved pegs Grandpa made installed on the violin and got a new bow to go with it. The violin was made 61 years ago and has never been played.

It was a lovely way to end the day!!!!

LYNN'S 75th BIRTHDAY SURPRISE! BEST BIRTHDAY EVER

I was disappointed that my cousin, Lleana postponed our annual

birthday celebration get together for the day of my birthday, but

shehad just gotten back from Eastern Washington the day before

andneeded some time to regroup and get ready for the big family

get-together over at Sandy Hook on Whidbey Island on Saturday.

So I was feeling rather bummed. BUT...I gave the day over to the

Lord and just let HIM surprise me with whatever He had in store

for me.

AND SURPRISE ME HE DID!!!!

Kevin called me and wished me Happy Birthday and I talked with

Rachel and Isaac and Nicole had her little baby sounds too.

Then Karen called and I chatted with her for awhile. Bob seemed

to have forgotten it was my birthday. When I asked him to take

my picture out on the front porch he asked why. Then he said "Is

today your birthday?" Well, Duh! Yeah! Not so much even as a

"Happy Birthday" from him all day. The bum. He was in my dog-

house.

Anyway I got checking my e-mail and facebook greetings from

friends, writing letters and then I was dozing in my chair when

I heard Brian knock at the door so I went to let him in and he

wished me Happy Birthday and gave me a hug. Then he wanted

to take my picture. I told him I wanted to change into my

"birthday blouse" (I have had my picture taken in this at 60, 70,

and now 75) before he took my

picture. I did that and as Brian

was taking my picture I heard

a loud knock at the door. I

went to look through the peep

hole to see who it was but,

I couldn't tell who it was.

It looked like some salesman

with a clipboard.

So I shrugged my shoulder and opened the door anyway and it was KEVIN at the door with a big bouquet of roses and the card he told me that I should probably get that day. I was speechless!

Brian video taped the surprise then posted it on facebook and tagged the girls so they could see it. I was still holding the roses and I hadn't had time to put them into a vase yet when Julie called me to wish me Happy Birthday. She asked me if I had had a good day. I said "Oh, yes

I had a VERY nice day!" (Oh, and what did you do today?) "Well I got a nice bouquet of roses for my birthday." (Who did you get the roses from?) I looked at Brian and whispered "Should I tell her?" He nodded "yes". So I said "I got them from Kevin!....and he just happens to be standing right behind me!" She let out a scream of excitement. Linda called and she said she cried when she saw the video. Karen did too.

Later Lisa called to wish me Happy Birthday and she and Nik and Kiera "mowed" Happy Birthday to me. She said she had been gone all day so I figured that she didn't know so I didn't

tell her. Brian and Kevin went shopping and got some salmon for the next day and instead of coming back to our place to put it in the fridge likethey said they would they went to Lisa's.

Brian has been living at Lisa & Niks for over a year so when he came in and wanted to put the salmon in their fridge it was no big deal. Lisa was busy chopping vegies for the next day when she heard a noise and when she turned around there was Kevin standing there and she about dropped her teeth. Nik heard the commotion from the office and came out and said "NO WAY!" So they were completely surprised as well.

I have to add that Rachel found a good price on an airline ticket and bought it and called Kevin and told him that he was going to Seattle (from Arizona) for the week-end. Bless her heart. She is THE BEST daughter-in-love anyone could have.

So God blessed me many times over for my 75th Birthday!!

The best birthday ever!

THANK YOU HEAVENLY FATHER FOR BLESSING ME!!!

SURPRISE: BOB & I ARE DISTANT COUSINS

What a surprise! To find out that Bob and I are distant cousins!

How did this come about?

Well Bob's twin brother, Dick had sent us 6 copies of the Smith

Family Tree and I remember as I glanced through it several

years ago that I thought I saw a "Henkle" mentioned in there

somewhere.

Since we moved and I think I have given each of the kids a copy

of the Smith Family Tree and didn't have a copy for ourselves I

asked the kids if they could look this up for me. They couldn't

find their copies as they too, had moved about.

So I e-mailed Janet, my sister-in-law and asked her to check the

Smith Family Tree for a "Henkle" that might be listed in there.

She didn't think so at first but later she sent me another e-mail

and YES they had found it. She sent me the 4 names that were

in there and I looked them up in the big red Henckel Family

Geneaolgy book and there were the names. I had a little time

trying to figure out the generations on those 4 names but finally

got them straight after using the number system for the different

generations and got to Anthony Jacob Henckel. He had a son,

John Justus Henckel, Sr. and he had two sons, one John Justus,

Jr., and the other Jacob Henkle. (The spelling of the name

changed even within the same families.) But Bob is downline

from Jacob and I am downline from John Justus, Jr. And that

is how we are distant cousins.

What a trip for us!!!!!