Identities of Kids: John Draper(head turned); Tom Bauer; Bruce Gruner and Colleen Gruner. Wilma B. Gruner with watermelon in hand. Background , probably dipping ice cream for the cones is Clare Gruner at left and Jack Draper at right.

For many years, spanning from the late 30's to the 60's, Aunt Gladys would bring ice cream to the reunion. It was brought in a tall insulated bag with a block of dry ice on top of the 5 gallon container of ice cream before the top was buckled over it. Usually the ice cream was so hard that the can had to be lifted out for the contents to warm enough to be dipped. Sometimes she brought ice cream bars instead.

She married George Miller in 1921. He, his brother and his father had started the Miller Dairy Farm Ice Cream Company in Eaton Rapids and by the 1940's it had grown to a sizeable business with a string of ice cream stores from Lansing to Fort Wayne,Indiana. The company bookkeeping was done.