GUESS WHAT!!!!!We have a VENUE.......... The 6th USS Downes Navy Reunion isApril 24th -27th, 2025Hoilday Inn Arlington, TX ***If you are interested in booking a room at the Holiday Inn in Arlington, Tx for the 2025 reunion, the phone number is 817-460-2500. Please use "USS Downes reunion". The rate is $149 per night for standard and king. $159 a night for a suite, each room comes with two free complementary breakfast each day. ASK for Shadow please - she will be happy to help you out!!
They have free shuttle service from the airport, which nobody else had. They were within our budget for the reunion. As well they could hold our group. We have a great reunion planned. I hope you can join us**
Christmas Card are about ready to go out. I hope within the next few weeks. Enclosed will be the reunon forms as well as a form for a raffle for a 26" replica of the Downes 1070. It is a beautifully bulit handmaked wooden ship. I will be posting photo's as they come in.
Your Reunion Committee.....
Mark Carlson
Duffy & Patricia Greba
Gary & Becky Court
Reunion Contact Info:
Gary & Becky Court
C: 320.493.9775
E: 1070ussdownes@gmail.com
GOD BLESS – Have a Wonderful week ahead and remember
“I Do it for the Smiles”
- I continue to look for shipmates and get them reconnected!! That's my #1 goal.
ALSO, A BIG thank you for your support!
** The Membership IS NOT MANDATORY~ it is to help off set costs.... What do you get....
1. Membership Card
2.Quartly Newsletter - with who has been found and whom as passed
3.A 2023 Member dog tag - USS DOWNES
4. Custom USS DOWNES Ship Birthday Card
**THE BOARD HAS THE DISCRECTION TO DENY OR CANCEL A MEMBERSHIP AT ANY GIVEN TIME, FOR ANY REASON**** Please email in your stories and Pictures of your times on the Downes** Also please contact us with NAMES - lets be the MOST Complete record SHIP in the FLEET!!
God Bless and as always don't forget to share a smile!!!
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