2015 Varner Reunion

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Varner Reunion 2013 Video

This is one of the videos made at the 2013 Reunion

Remember, this year Varner's Reunion will be tomorrow.It will start at Noon, outside  at the American Legion, on Gresham Avenue.    See old friends, Enemies  and bullies.   There will be grilled hamburgers and hotdogs and a kitty jar.

So put on your Devil-May-Care Cool look with a slightly amused smirk, tight-ass Levis,  and be a trophy friend, just like old times.

Varner Video 2014

What if you gave a party and nobody came?   Or, what if you gave a party and because of bad weather  it was moved up one week and everybody came on the cancelled date? 

Even though it is pouring down rain and is forecasted to all day, I will not be surprised but will be amused if a few people show up today at noon for the Varner Reunion.  They would have overlooked the date change announcement.  Well, they can have their own mini-Varner Reunion today.

For those who will get irritated not knowing the party had been cancelled:, instead of getting irritated, sit down and watch the below video of last year's Varner  Reunion, so this week won't be a total lost.

Ralph Harper and Joe Jenkins at the 2014 Varner Reunion.  It appears that they are awed at each other. 

A REMINDER:  If you show up tomorrow at the American Legion expecting to party with old friends, you may or may not get your wish,  it is according to how many other people didn't get the message about the reunion being upped a week because of bad weather predictions.

The real date and time now is next week at, same place, at Noon on Saturday, May the 2nd.

Monty's Big Announcement

Due to the weather The Varner Reunion is postponed until the following
Saturday. That will ,be May 2nd and starts at 12:00 pm served at 2:00.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but this just makes more sense.

Bill Spinks at the Varner Reunion

This is Bill Spinks.  He was a special Honor Guest at the 2013 Varner Reunion, also pictured below is his daughter Patsy and her husband Hylton Dupre.  

  Bill Spinks knows just about everybody my age or older of my father's side of the family and the same on Anna's mother side of the family.  They grew in the same neighborhood on Powder Springs and Reynolds Streets .  He surprised me at the funeral home a few years ago when he walked up to me and said, "Hello Rock!"  He recognized me after over 50 years.

I was good friends with his daughter Patsy and in high school went over to their hose a lot. 

Visiting them at their house was always an interesting experience.  They had a horny little dog that every time  would spend the entire time I was there humping my leg.   I think we all chose to ignore the horny  panting little rascal.

Which reminds me, The Varner Reunion this year will be this coming Saturday,  April 25th, at noon. 

Who said you can't go back?

Paul and Pete Meet

Varner's and Bell Reunions are great for seeing old friends that you have forgotten about.  Here at the 2011 Varner Reunion Paul Roper is shaking Peter Benbow's hand.   I felt like I was invading their privacy, so I moved on to take some more pictures.  Peter owns a small engine  repair company in Doraville or Chamblee. 

Speaking of which, you too can see old friends (and enemies) at the upcoming Varner Reunion, next Saturday, April the 25th, at noon at the Horace Orr American Legion on Gresham Avenue in Marietta.

Paul and Pete
Meet.

I like that bounce!

If I could only found a Mary to be in the picture too, I could label the picture:
Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Varner Reunion Only One Week Away!

Here is Monty Calhoun talking to Clarence  Robinson at the 2013 Varner Reunion.  Clarence used to work with my father at the Marietta Police; Clarence was a plains clothes detective.  He probably patted down more people at that Varner Reunion than anyone else there.  Maybe Mickey Carlile could come in a close second.

Remember!  The Varner Reunion will be one week from today:  Saturday, April 25th, noon at Horace Orr American Legion.   

Mayor at Varner's Reunion

Here is a picture of the current Marietta  mayor Steve "Thunder" Tumlin  when he attended the 2013 Varner Reunion.  Today is his birthday.  How do you wish a high social  ranking person as a mayor Happy Birthday?  I watched enough Downton Abby to know that:  HAPPY BIRTHDAY M'LADY!

Remember, This year's Varner Reunion will be Saturday, April the 25th, noon, at the Horace Orr American Legion in Marietta.

Mayor Bill Dunaway at the 2011 Varner Reunion

Bill Dunaway at the 2011 Varner Reunion.  I think he was at the end of his second term  as Mayor of Marietta .  You might wonder why his arm is in a sling in this picture.  Shaking a lot of hands?  Well,  most people shake with their right hand.  Slapping a lot of backs?  That too, would be a right hand job.  Maybe the sling is a conversational piece.   This year's Varner Reunion will be at the Horace Orr American Legion, or Gresham Avenue, in Marietta,  April  25th.  It starts at noon, outside.  See old friends.  Hot dogs and hamburgers cooked on a grill will be available.  Rolling drunks will start at sundown.

The Tolberts at the First Varner Reunion

Judy Hicks and Steve Tolbert at the first Varner Reunion in 2009.  You may remember Judy's father's and her Aunt Regina's Hicks Grocery at the end Atlanta Street and the corner of East Dixie Avenue.    You might remember Steve too because he was the one staring at you when you were staring at Judy.  Remember, this year (2015), Reunion will start at noon Saturday, April the 25th, outside, at the American Legion on Gresham Avenue, here in Marietta.

  Think on the positive side:  It might not rain.

Gossiping at the Varner Reunion

In this picture we see Bobby McEntyre and Arnold Guest, listening to  David Clackum at a Varner Reunion.  It looks like David is telling some surprising gossip.  Come to the Varner Reunion, Saturday, April 25, at noon, at the American Legion, so if the current gossip is about you,  you will be there to  defend your good name.

Varner Reunion, 2 weeks from Today!

In this picture Brenda and Marvalyn are sitting outside enjoying a Varner Reunion and suddenly Marvalyn looks at us face to face and says, "The Varner Reunion is two weeks  from today! It will be outside too!"  Saturday,  April the 25th.  The party will start at noon.

Tommy & Terry at 2010 Varners Reunion

Tommy and Terry go back a long time knowing each other.  As a matter of fact for Terry it is a lifetime.  They are the Townsend Brothers at a Varner Reunion.  I'm sure they will be at the upcoming one also, which is Saturday the 25th, noon, outside, at the American Legion.  

Varner's SUNSHINE Girls

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L'June, Pam, and Sandy at the 2012 Varner Reunion

Remember, Varner's Reunion  is Saturday, April the 25th, at noon.   There will be hamburgers, hotdogs, and a kitty.  The idea is that you eat the burgers and dogs and you feed the kitty.  

Varner Reunion and Deaths

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This random picture at a Varner Reunion has more of a meaning than it appears.  When I took it I meant for it to be  It  a very random picture.   In it are three friends that were to die soon.  Walking away we see the back of  the late Jackie Turner,  in the middle in the maroon shirt is the  late Joel Jackson, and  on the right in the wheelchair is the late Jerry McBee.  

At our age some of the people you see at the upcoming Varner Reunion on Saturday, April 25, 2015, noon, outside, might be the last time you see them.  Hug them!  Or at least shake their hand, or  what about a nod?

24 Days Until the Varner Reunion, Apr 27th

Katherine Durrett

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28 Days Until April the 28th! Varner's Reunion

Sandy Ramsey and Rupert Raines

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30 Days Until the Varner Reunion

The way I count it, today it is 30 days until the Varner's Reunion, on April the 27th.

Larry Miller (before his lung transplant)

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32 Days Until the Varner Reunion.

Actually, it is how you count it.  Sometimes I figure and come up with a number less than the running number for the day and sometimes I come up with a number more than what it is suppose to be.   No matter how you count it, the Zero Date is April the 27th.

Frank Owenby and Dan Northcutt

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straight pooper scooper

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