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Our Family |
My Siblings and
Spouses, from left to right:
My late
brother Richard (Andy), from San Diego; Joan and me, Cambridge, MN; Joanne and
my brother Rodney from San Diego; my sister Linda, and her late husband, John
from Albert Lea, MN; and my sister Lola, and her husband, Dale from Savage, MN
The
picture was taken the end of May, 2009 when we were
all in the area for my mother's memorial service.
The photo
below is from the summer of 2024.
Joan and Roger
We were married July
1, 1967.
We enjoy
doing a lot of things together including travel, and you can find summaries of
our trips at my website: rogerwmanderson.com
We have
lots of other interests too, such as Roger's interested in Ishi, the Last
Stone-age Indian of North America, antiques, and more.
Joan likes
researching her new family and making new contacts with them. She was
adopted at birth, and recently found her
"natural" family. Many of them live close to us in the
Cambridge and Isanti area. She also enjoys knitting, reading, and
computer games.
We both
love spending time with our children and their families.
Iceland, August, 2017
Derek and Renee
This is
Derek, and his wife, Renee. Derek graduated from Cambridge High
School in 1990, went to school at the Lutheran Bible Institute near Seattle,
Washington, and after working for a publishing company, and went back to school
at The University of Wisconsin, River Falls. He is now an English teacher
at Mahtomedi, and Renee is an 
elementary school teacher and
media specialist. They were married on June 21, 2003, and live in White
Bear Lake, Minnesota.
Derek is a
comic book collector, and a book lover, and plays guitar. He is in a band
called, "MY COUSIN DALLAS". They're on Facebook.
They have
three children:
Ezra, who
was born on March 15, 2006.
Zoë, who was born on March 25, 2008.
Gus (August), who was born February 7, 2011.
Here they
are with their cousins, Phoebe and Gram, 2023.
Kent and Chrysa
This is
Kent, our youngest son, and his wife, Chrysa. Kent and Chrysa are both graduates
from the College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis. Kent graduated from
the Cambridge-Isanti High School in 1995.
Kent
graduated with a degree in photography, and is working
as a commercial photographer at a place that makes cake decorations and
accessories, and Chrysa is an illustrator, and works for a manufacturing
company as a designer/ illustrator for Mylar balloons.
They live
in Richfield, and have two children, Phoebe Clare, who was born August 8, 2012,
and Gram, who was born October 25, 2016.
