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Updates: Reunions, Loss & Legacy

I didn't make the 53rd year Hunter/Burns Family Reunion in Thomson, Georgia (July 2026). Here's a group pic of those who were there.  I had a week earlier left the Jenkins Family Reunion that was being held in Memphis, TENN. I'm looking forward to bringing the energy from the Jenkins Reunion to the 54th Hunter/Burns Family Reunion in Mound Bayou, MISS. It will be held on June 11 &12, 2027.  It's a little earlier than usual, however, this means I have no excuse to not attend. The Mississippi Delta is familiar territory for sure. Also on a sad note we lost a family member recent one of Aunt (our Tribal Matriarch) Lucyrene Burns Robinson's daughters Diana Michelle Robinson Walker had passed on Monday morning. Any details on any arrangements for her will be updated on The Custodian. As it happens it was two days before the second anniversary of my mother's (our Tribal Historian) passing, which it didn't hit me until after I got the news. I wanted to do more...