Gleaning Facebook: Baby Recognition 2020

Our granddaughter Ruth Irmgard Carlin, and Debi & Gregg's grandson, Charles Shaw Lewis, who are my mother's thirty-fifth and thirty-fourth great-grandchildren were among the 23 babies of 2019 who were rcognized in the 38th Annual Louise Langham Baby Recognition Sunday at our church, Trinity United Methodist, this morning!

Nancy has headed up this special service the last several years. Anita's beautiful calligraphy adds so much. And Julie always comes to stand in for her wonderful mom who with Evelyn Clifton organized the celebration and headed it up till her death.

Ruth Carlin is Ruth Baird Shaw's 35th great grandchild, our granddaughter, and the child of our daughter  Brannon Shaw and son-in-law-and-love John Carlin. Ruth is named for my mother and Ruth's other living Great Grand Mother Irmgard Huzel.

Charles is named for my father Charles Columbus Shaw. There are also Shaws on his mother's side of the family. I think my nephew Benjamin Lewis and his wife Caitlin Rae Lewiswere especially delighted that this very natural family name also is a way to elicit the memory of a favorite author: C.S. Lewis.

Greta Tigner
Nice to see you Gregg Lewis and Debbie. 

Gregg Lewis
This was taken at a baby recognition Sunday at our church where 23 babies born during 2019 into families that attend or are associated with our church. Benjamin and Caitlin's Charles was recognized alongside Terrell and Sheila Shaw's second granddaughter named Ruth-- after Debi's and Terrell's mother who will be 97 next month. I believe they were the 34th and 35th great-grandchildren of Ruth who has pictures of every one of them in the hallway of the home where she still lives on her own.

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Hilda Atkins Moore
AWESOME PHOTO

Amy Cavin
What a wonderful day for your family! Blessings on both children!

Margaret Mason Autry
What a blessing!!

Beth Allman Jones
Beautiful family ! Mrs. Ruth looks good. She & my late Mother, Doris Burch Allman were friends and graduated together in Porterdale.

Susan Barnes Babb
Blessed to know and love the Shaw & Lewis families!

Jeanne Wright
So sweet

Natalie Roseberry
So very special! 

Bonnie Turner

Congratulations!

Bonnie Turner
Awesome!

Rita Lawler
Magnificent! Is there an ancestor "Irmgard"?

Terrell Shaw
Irmgard Klebba (Huzel) (b.1924) is the mother of...
Renata Huzel (Carlin) who is the mother of...
John Dieter Carlin who is the father of...
Ruth Irmgard Carlin who is the daughter of...
Brannon Ruth Shaw who is the daughter of...
Charles Terrell Shaw who is the son of
Sarah Ruth Baird Shaw (b. 1923)

So our new granddaughter is named for her two living great grandmothers. 

Rita Lawler
Terrell Shaw I know the name Irmagard. These are my first "Irmgards"

Terrell Shaw
Rita Lawler I think John's grandmother was called "Irmel" by her husband and friends. She is "Oma" nowadays to Brannon & John. She is a very interesting 95 year-old. She and her husband had quite an adventure as WWII ended which is detailed in the book "Peenemunde to Canaveral" by her husband Dieter Huzel. Isn't it interesting at the way the world works. I have often wondered what my great grandfather Lt William Baird CSA would have thought to know he would have descendants who also have ancestors who fought for the USA 1861-65. Now my father who fought as a US Marine in WWII has descendants whose ancestors fought for Germany and others whose ancestry reaches back to Japan. The world shrinks and changes, and gets "all mixed up", as Pete Seeger used to sing.
https://www.amazon.com/Peenemunde-Canaveral.../dp/B000NRCJAO

Rita Lawler
Terrell Shaw connections! In many fundamental ways we are all related.

Faye Layton
Great picture, Terrell and Sheila, and what a lovely tradition at your church.

Evelyn Clifton
That means so much to me, happy to see pictures of everybody. A most special day.

Juanita Cordle
Beautiful service and so happy to celebrate our grand daughter Olivia.