25th Anniversary
In Spring of 1971 just s months after the marriages of Colleen and Cath, the Madden family moved to Washington. Jim had accepted a transfer to the Surface Effects Ship division of Aerojet. After a short stint in a motel, they found a great house in Gig Harbor.
They left Maura and Cath in California and Colleen was living in Corvalis, Oregon.
Just one year later the the first "Family Gathering" took place. A surprise for the 25th anniversary of Jim and Jean. Colleen did much of the planning for the event, which included dinner out and then a party waiting at home.
Maura, William, Cath, Greg and not quite one year old Jessica piled into Maura's Datsun for the journey north from San Francisco. Along the way we swung through Corvalis to add Colleen and not quite one year old Erich to the pile. 
We arrived just in time to leave for dinner. We left Erich and Jessica with newly turned twelve year old Patrick. I'm not sure what we were thinking, two crawling messy infants with a kid who had never had a younger sibling!!! He was slow to forgive us and for years swore he would never have a child.
It was a short visit, everyone had to get back for work, but thankfully we took time for this picture, the last with all eight of us.
...there must be other pictures of that weekend, but this is all I found in my albums, or the Madden negative collection.
Great pictures!
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