Six generations reunite

Pamela Bexley of Pahrump felt concerned enough after the death of her uncle, to organize an impromptu road trip to Kansas over a weekend recently for a family reunion. Over a weekend, the Bexleys, all six generations of them, got together for a group photo in St. Francis, Kan.

Pamela Bexley, 37, said she moved to Pahrump six years ago along with her daughter, Kathryn Bexley, who just finished Pahrump Valley High School and recently gave birth to a daughter Taylor Bexley, now 4-months-old.

If little Tyler Bexley could talk, she could boast to her friends about having not only a grandmother, Pamela Bexley, but a great-grandmother, Phyliss Bexley, 59, a great-great-grandmother Harriet Draper, 83, and a great-great-great-grandmother, Mae Mossburgh, 103.

Pamela Bexley said the drive took about 16 to 18 hours each way and would've been much easier if it wasn't for a snowstorm on the way home.

A family member wrote up a history on Mae Mossburgh. Pamela Bexley said she told her she used to be a roller skating queen during her younger day, when roller skate wheels were made of wood. Asked where the men were, Pamela Bexley said Harriett Draper's husband, Charles Draper, now 93, is still alive and her own father, Don Hartman, is still alive and in his early 60s.