Cousins

My maternal grandparents had two daughters. From the two daughters came fourteen grandchildren. My cousins and my family always lived a few miles from each other. There was some rivalry between the two families, some of it of the unhealthy kind. But I guess we survived.

• Here we are in 1991, celebrating my grandfather's 80th birthday.

  

  From left to right: (number in parenthesis is ranking by age)

  Don Fogarty (8), Rick Hofer (5), Terrie Fogarty Dawson (4), Jeff Fogarty (11), Diana Hofer Rosen (9), Tim Fogarty (2), Barbara Hofer ____ (13), Joe Hofer (7), Mike Hofer (14), John Hofer (10), Kathy Hofer Schmitz (3), Jim Hofer (12), Frank Hofer (1), Debbie Fogarty Deason (6)

• This is what the older 12 looked like almost 30 years ago.

  

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