William Thomas married Shirley Jean Blazer in Raton, NM,May 25, l957. This union brought Philip Douglas, 12-30-57; Paul David, 2-09-59 passed away from Leukemia 12-21-63;Price Daniel, 12-07-62; Patti Diane, 5-18-65. Graduated from Colorado State Teacher's College, now UNC Greeley. Went to work at Ft. Lyon Veteran Administration Medical Center in 1960. Retired as Chief of PT/KT in 1990. Farmed with Dad Quarles on his share of family farm raising sweet corn, hay and melons. Shirley substituted and tutored in Las Animas school system until her retirement in 2002. She loves to do her yard work and gardening.

Phil married Cynthia Jean Miller, July 1977. Graduated from Emporia State College in Kansas with an accounting degree and started in the beef industry for IBP in 1977 as a cost accountant and is now the Slaughter Operation Mangager with Cargill in Ft. Morgan, CO. Cynthia has worked in the Ft. Morgan High School athletic director and counseling offices and still is. They raised Kana Jean, 8-28-88 and Kari Jo, 6-16-82 there. Kana graduated from CSU with an accounting degree, married Noel Evan Harryman in 2003. He is a landscape designing architect and Kana is the Financial Reporting Manager for a gas/oil leasing company. They have a son, Cole Jackson born April 24, 2008 and live in Commerce City, CO. Kari obtained her cosmetology degree and worked in that field various places and is now working at the same facility as Kana as a Land Technician. She is single and living in Thornton, CO. Phil is an avid outdoorsman playing sports, fishing, horseshoes etc.


Price attended the DeVry Education System in Kansas City, MO and obtained a BS in Electronic Engineering Technology in 1984. Went to work for KLA in San Jose, CA. Married Cynthia Anne Cochran in Oregon in 1986. Worked for a year in Canada and then transferred to Albuquerque, NM as field Service engineer for KLA. They raised Chancy Ford, born 3-10-89 and Pryor William 6-20-91 there. Cindi has had her fingers in several cottage industries, clowning and is now a Passion Parties International Consultant. Chancy is attending CNM in Albuquerque and Pryor will be a senior in high school. Price plays banjo in a bluegrass band as his hobby.

Patti married Robert Allen Slack in 1984. He was in house construction at that time and later became a horse trainer. He and Patti and son Jared Charles 7-09-85 and daughter, Amber Nicole, 1-25-88 began traveling the racehorse circuit, training and racing horses. Patti separated from Bobby 3 years ago and is living in OK City working at the racetrack there. Jared is following in Dad's shoes, traveling all over being a jockey and handler. Amber and her significant other, Ryan Allen Stivers are into raising and training horses also in the Nebraska area. Amber gave birth to a son, Blake Allen June 6, 20-08.

Clint & Rachel De Vries Malvitz & Family

Rachel and Clint were married 19 April 2008.

Clint works as a heavy equipment operator for a local coal mine. He is an avid outdoors man. After remodeling most of their home, he is ready for a well deserved vacation from his duties as general contractor.

Rachel is working for Wal Mart as a cashier, customer service representative, customer service supervisor... She would run the entire store if she were asked. :)

McKenzie (5) is very computer savvy. She visits all the sites mentioned in her favorite television programs. She is very excited about starting kindergarten this fall. Her best friend is ma maw's bantam chicken, who eats out of her hand.

Tristan (3) wants to be a conductor for the railroad. The movie "The Polar Express" is the source of his love of trains. He has quite a collection of Thomas the train die casts. If working for the railroad does not pan out, studying insects under "high magnification" would be his second career choice.

Chuck & Trudy De Vries

Chuck continues to work for International Coal Group, at Bridger Coal near Rock Springs, WY, as a supervisor over the high-wall miner. His ten days at home are busy with "honey do's", rebuilding antique Ford tractors, and the family farm. He travels to Olathe, CO, each month to visit his Dad who is 86 years old. He is looking forward to retiring in a "few" years!!

My life is busy enjoying grand-children and working part-time. I have worked for American Greeting as a merchandiser for 22 years - - can you believe that!! Genealogy seems to be my addiction! I tried to cancel my subscription to Ancestry.com for the summer because I found myself up at 2AM searching for names and dates. That lasted about two weeks!! Last summer I traveled to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City to attend classes in researching families in Germany, Sweden, and Netherlands. I have been amazed at the information available from the Netherlands!!

Looking forward to seeing everyone the end of July!!

Randy Quarles and family

Randy is a managing director at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm in Washington DC, where he's helping lead a group investing in financial institutions, especially providing capital to troubled banks. He is on the LDS Church's Public Affairs Committee, is a High Councilor for the Washington DC Stake, and in his spare time he's a pilot, skier, pundit, voracious reader of history and philosophy, and Cub Scout Den Leader.

Hope is the CEO, and co-owner with her siblings, of the Goldener Hirsch Inn, ranked by Conde Nast as one of the 100 best places to stay in the world and by Zagats as one of the two best small hotels in the United States. The restaurant at the hotel is perennially ranked as either the very best or among the top handful in the state of Utah. In her spare time she is a trustee of the University of Utah, an advisor to Governor Huntsman on higher education issues, and a mother of three active kids.

Young Randy (9) is an avid sportsman (basketball, tennis, skiing), budding paleontologist, absorbed reader (non-fiction only, please), and conscientious big brother to Spencer and Hope. He's entering Form C (the 4th grade) at St. Albans in Washington DC this fall, but his heart is at home in the West, where he spends holidays and summers swimming, playing tennis and horseback riding with his cousins.

Spencer (7) is our mechanical engineer, building ever more complex structures out of bags of Legos (this month, it's a 4 foot long scale model of the Imperial Flagship from Star Wars), our compassionate conservative (he recently initiated a long discussion on the best way to fund universal health care for pets), and our future NASCAR hero (having recently taken first place among the Tiger Cubs at the Pinewood Derby, and third place in the entire pack, after his brother took second place among the Wolf Cubs last year). This year he stretched himself by graduating from Dollar Mountain in Sun Valley and going skiing with his dad and brother on Baldy for the first time.

Hopie (just turned 4) is our future celebrity, as she likes to come downstairs to breakfast in the morning wearing her pink pajamas, long pink bathrobe, and pink sunglasses pushed back up on her head saying "Today I feel just like a movie star". She has her mother's energy and enthusiasm, her father's sense of humor, and her brothers' love of family. She starts pre-K in the fall at the Beauvoir School where her brother Spencer will show her the ropes just as his brother Randy showed him when Spencer arrived 3 years ago.

Fuzzy is a 7-month old Coton de Tulear from Madagascar, who is rapidly making progress in training us all to respond to his every command.

Steve & Roxanne Shallenberger & Family

Steve & Roxanne Shallenberger & Family

Steve spends his time in business, with the family, and with church and civic activities. He also enjoys playing tennis or racquetball.

Roxanne is busy with children and grandchildren and getting ready for rotator cuff surgery. She just returned from a great trip to Thailand with her brother and two sisters.

Robert and Tonya have lived in Phoenix for the last three years where he has been and F16 instructor. They have three children, Robbie, Bella, and Lana. They have just received a new assignment where he will be a T38 Instructor at Vance Air Force Base in Ok. He is working on his Masters Degree from Colorado State University.

David graduates on May 11^th 2008 from Willamette Law School in Salem Oregon. His wife Sara graduated from Utah State in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. David will be sitting for the Utah Bar Exam the end of this summer. Sara served a mission in Brazil. They have two children, Tanner and Brooklyn. They are moving back to Utah where Dave will put legal counsel and chief engineer for Synergy Companies.

Steven is an F16 Pilot and has served in Korea and recently returned from Iraq. His wife Deanna graduated from Weber State University May 2 in Public Communications. They are currently stationed in Hill Air Force Base in Utah so lucky us!

Tommy just graduated from BYU with a Masters in Accountancy. He is working with Synergy Companies and helping with the development of its Solar Energy Division.

Daniel is serving a mission in Southern Chili. He returns in July 2009.

Anne is the youngest and only girl. She is a senior in high school and graduates in 3 weeks. She will be attending the University of Utah where she will be playing on the women’s soccer team.

Tammy & Sabrina

Tammy- As of recently my mother is doing quite well and is the strongest person I know. Stubborn as always and is still everything our family has ever know her to be. Currently she has just started her twenty-second year at the Post Office and can't wait to retire, she is always counting down the years. She is but a few months from paying off her house and is excited to get that out of the way. She enjoys keeping me on my toes and I can honestly say I never know what she will do next. Her favorite pass time is reminding me of when I was young. She enjoys playing her game boy, watching TV and playing with all of our animals. We just had the irrigation done in backyard and the front yard is complete, mom especially loves this and enjoys pulling the weeds that spring up.

Sabrina- Summer is here for me and I am enjoying every minute of it, except for work. I started my second year and Landscape Enterprise Ltd in January and I'm not to sure how I did that. I am the only woman currently working at the company and I sometimes wonder how that many men actually work together. When I'm not working I'm always busy with friends or some sort of activity. I love Colorado, it offers all kind of fun. I enjoy snowboarding, hiking, playing pool and reading. I also spend a lot of time on the Internet connecting with friends that I don't get to see to often. I start the end of my second year of college this August and I should be done with all of my prerequisites. I'm hoping to get to Fort Collins by winter of '09, and I cant wait.

Well I think that covers everybody, can't wait to see you all in July!

Betty and Bill's & Cheryl's Family

Betty Wilbur - I am the second sibling of this great family. I have lived in Las Animas, CO most of my life. In 1946 I married Elvis Cunningham and to our union was born Trudy, Ellen, Ronda, Bill and Tammy. Elvis passed away in 1966 and seven years later I married William Wilbur. He had four children, Florine, Roger, Aileen and Rhonda. At present I live in Las Animas, CO. Bill is the only one close. I have no pets so if I want to go I can. I love music. I do hand work, quilting and go visiting and resting and fix missionary meals, and resting. I also do Indexing
for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.


William E. Cunningham III (Elvis) joined the Army May 30, 2008. He said that the first few weeks were of rough doing push ups, getting yelled at and the gas chamber. He said it is not so bad now. He has about 6 more weeks of Basic Training and then on to his new assignment. Before he went into the Army he lived in Greeley for 5 years going to school and working. He would love to get letters from everyone. You can write to him at SPC Cunningham, William E.
BCD 1/48th Ln BN, 3rd PLT road Dawgs
495 Iowa Ave., Unit #5
Ft. LeonardWood, MO 65473

Chris Cunningham lives in Las Animas and is working for the City fixing the swimming pool. He loves rock music and would love to play in a band. He was an avid scateboarder. He is a vegetarian.

Nicholas Cunningham started motorcycle mechanic school last November in Phoenix, AZ. He says it is really hot there at present. He is interested in motorcycles, movies, skatboarding, swimming and bowling. He is the one that broke his neck a couple of years back and is doing fine at present.

Bill and Cheryl Cunningham are doing fine. Bill, in addition to continuing employment with the state as a correctional officer is now a part-time farmer and bee keeper. He is very busy. He does find time every once in a while to go fishing though. Cheryl is doing well, busy with the kids and Bill. She likes to go fishing and hiking with Bill and Acacia when they can find the time.

Harley is spending the summer in Canon City working as a stocker at Kwik-Stop. He loves working and getting a paycheck. He is getting a raise in July and looking forward to that. He will be a sophomore in high school next year. He likes to ride his scooter and play Guitar Hero when he is not working.

Beci and Abe have been in Hobbs, NM for the pas three months. They are on their way to Globe, Arizona for a month or two and then to Wyoming for a couple of years. Abe is a welder for power plant construction. Beci is looking forward to seeing Nic in Arizona.

Acacia is in 4-H and is taking dog training, cake decorating and sewing. She will be in the 3rd grade next year. She is an avid reader and likes to keep busy all the time. She loves to go fishing and hiking. She also likes to give Bill as hard a time as he gives her.