By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current

Norma Lodge(left) being driven by Brynn Wildemuth(right).

The Kiwanis Club Doo-Dah Parade is an annual activity in the Geneseo Music Festival weekend. This year it also became a family birthday celebration for Norma Lodge, who will be 99 years old on July 20.

Lodge’s family members of all ages, from children and grandchildren to great-grandchildren, walked in this year’s Doo-Dah Parade held Friday, June 14, in downtown Geneseo. They wore T-shirts that read “Norma’s 99.”

The “birthday girl” can be seen riding in a gator, being driven by her great-granddaughter, Brynn Wildemuth, and the band members providing the birthday music are Lodge’s great-grandchildren.

Families who took part in the event included Lodge’s daughter and son-in-law, Steve and Lynette Wildemuth and their son Dirk Wildemuth and his wife, Megan, and their children; Wildemuth’s daughter Heidi Fleming and her husband, Adam Fleming and their children; and Lodge’s daughter Mary Gorman and her daughter Chrissy Weir and her children, and the children of Gorman’s son, Tom Gorman.

Nearly 25 members of the Lodge family took part in the parade to celebrate the milestone birthday of Norma Lodge.