Hastings Family Reunion Falls Just Short Of Record
HASTINGS, Minn. (WCCO) -- A family in Hastings fell just short of breaking the world record for people attending a family reunion.
More than 1,500 members of the Bauer family got together on Sunday. Their story all begins with Christoph and Anna Bauer. The couple came over from Germany in 1873, started farming in Hastings and raising a large Catholic family.
They had 11 children, and 13 of their grandchildren made it to Sunday's reunion.
"Well it's great. I see so many, my family is all purple shirts and I see so many with purple shirts and I've gone up to a lot of them 'Who are you? I knew we're related,'" Tillie Johnson said.
Two families from Germany even made the trip to Hastings. In German, Bauer means farmer.
