Reunions Past

The Maxson Family Association Reunions Retrospective, 2000 - 2007

2007 National Maxson Family Association Reunion

The MFA fourth national reunion was held June 16-17, 2007 in Bloomington, Illinois and was hosted by Susan Maxson and Michael Fuller. Friday evening, June 15, most participants gathered at Susan and Michael's house for dinner, refreshments and getting re-acquainted. Saturday and Sunday, the events were held at Tri-Lakes State Park Club House. The food served was outstanding and Delores Maxson's pies were a hit. At the business meeting, all board members were re-elected and Jane Hoxie Maxson was appointed Historian for the Association. The membership voted to hold the 2009 reunion in Rhode Island, dates to be announced.

Our thanks to Susan, Michael and Susan's parents Millard and Delores Maxson for making this an outstanding reunion.

2007 Photo Gallery

2005 National Maxson Family Association Reunion

The 2005 reunion held June 25 and 26, 2005 in the Kansas City area was a complete success. Saturday, June 25 we met at Weston Bend State Park near Weston, Missouri. A picnic lunch was served and officers elected. Sunday, June 26 we met at Heritage Park in Olathe, Kansas for a catered meal. The following was written by Marsha Maxson Donarum, your Vice President, regarding the reunion:

Reflections from the Maxson Reunion of 2005

Many of the folks we met at this 3^rd reunion of the Maxson Family Association discovered our organization by keying in “Maxson” and tapping “search”. What an amazing world opened up for them…the first revelation for some of us of how far-flung, numerous, and varied the Maxson family has become through the eleven or twelve generations of a rapidly changing America.

As I sit here with my wireless laptop on the last night of my trip to Olathe, Kansas, I can hear the train whistles blowing on their way to and from Kansas City. I wonder how many adventurous Maxson's traveled by train to or through the Great Plains and what challenges they encountered.

This year we reluctantly accepted the retirement of three of our founding members who have served in the most important formative years of the organization.

**********Without them there would be no Maxson Family Association*********

Jane and Jonathan Maxson

Vickie Maxson

Jane has agreed to continue to contribute articles to the newsletter and act as a resource for fact and legend. We have been fortunate to have Jane’s knowledge of early New England history and the benefit of her research. As her quest to separate fact from fiction continues, we look forward to many more years of submissions. Thank you for serving as secretary for our first five years.

Vickie has formatted, produced, and distributed our wonderful newsletter for five years almost single-handedly. Thank you for all of your hard work.

Jonathan has served as treasurer of our “vast fortunes” and did all of the “leg work” to set us up as a non-profit organization. Well done!

We are also losing our most recent Chaplain, Judy Maxson, and we thank both Judy and our first Chaplain, Henry Maxson for their thoughtful and inspirational messages.

2005 Photo Gallery

2003 National Maxson Family Association Reunion

Our second national family reunion was held Jun 28 and 29, 2003 in Rhode Island. All those that arrived Friday, dined together at Duffy's Tavern Friday evening.

Saturday, June 28, we met at the Hopkinton Seventh Day Baptist Church Parish House at 10:00. Church service was at 11:00 for those wishing to attend the church of the first Maxson pastors. A lunch was provided by the ladies of the church then a meeting of the Association was conducted. Marsha Maxson Donarum was elected to the vacant Vice-Presidency and Judith Maxson was appointed to the Chaplain vacancy created by the retirement of the Rev. Henry Maxson. Thanks were given to Rev. Henry for the spiritual guidance provided the Association for the past three years. A extremely interesting slide lecture was given by Dwight Brown, archivist of the Westerly Historical Society regarding old Westerly. After the meeting, some went grave yard tromping at the Old Hopkinton and Oak Grove Cemeteries.

Sunday we met at Chuck and Paula Pescatello's for some of Paula's outstanding Chowdah, food catered by Yawgoog Bakes and someone even brought several slabs of genuine Kansas City Ribs.

Pat and Gary Portsche were assigned the task of hosting the 2005 Maxson National Reunion and will be held at a time to be announced in good old South Johnson County, Kansas, part of the Kansas City Metropolitan area, Midway USA.

2003 Photo Gallery

2000 National Maxson Family Association Reunion

At the Maxson national reunion held August 5 and 6, 2000 in Rhode Island and Connecticut, initial steps were taken to form an organization of the descendants of Richard Maxson. Now that the organization is in place, the purposes are set forth as follows:

To promote and facilitate the research, collection and sharing of genealogical material of the descendants of Richard and Rebecca Maxson. To provide a web site on the WWW and a Newsletter as focal points for Maxson research and news. To plan, organize and execute, from time to time, national reunions of Maxson descendants. To conduct other business that may come before the organization. It is not the purpose of the Maxson Family Association to take the place of any present organizations but to work with and supplement any present organizations and/or ad hoc Maxson/Maxon groups.

Here's the Maxson 2000 Reunion Newsletter generated by Ray Maxson Sunday, August 13 with notes on the reunion and other pertinent information. Ray and his wife Helen were instrumental in the organization of this reunion and the Maxson Family Association thanks Ray and Helen for all of their hard work.

Herewith is an approximation of the prayer offered at the Maxson Family gathering on August 6, 2000 at Mystic, Connecticut by Rev. Henry Maxson, our Maxson Family Association Chaplain.

2000 Photo Gallery.

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Last updated February 07, 2009