2024 O'Kelley Family Reunion
Thu, Jul 25
|Double Tree Hilton Hotel - New Orleans
It is time to start planning to attend the 2024 O’Kelley Family Reunion in New Orleans, Louisiana. This will be our first reunion in six years since our last 2018 Reunion in Washington, DC! Registration deadline is Monday, June 24, 2024.
Time & Location
Jul 25, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT – Jul 28, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
Double Tree Hilton Hotel - New Orleans, 300 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
Guests
About the event
Since 1930 our O'Kelley reunions have celebrated the arrival of new family, memorialized those who have departed and joined together cousins from across the country. Our reunions have historically provided safe havens for fellowship, fun and relaxation. With the 2020 and 2022 reunions cancelled due to the COVID 19 global pandemic, after six years it is now time to gather together again to preserve our long rich family traditions.
HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS
This is the website to pay your reunion registration fees online and to pay for optional donations and to reserve spots in group tours. To reserve your hotel room, the Double Tree Hilton New Orleans Hotel has provided a website to reserve your room:
You may call the hotel directly at 504-581-1300 and ask to book a room in the O’Kelley Family Reunion block. The discounted rate of $121 for a double room is now sold out. The current group rate at the Double Tree Hilton is now $199.00. If you are interested in securing a suite at the Double Tree Hilton please email the 2024 Reunion Committee Chairman, Jamil T. Franklin. A 10% discount has been secured for valet parking ($48) and self-parking ($30).The O'Kelley Reunion block is only available while the supply lasts. Please refer to your official 2024 O'Kelley Reunion Letter for all Reunion details or email the Reunion Committee with questions.
Fortunately, we were able to secure a second discounted hotel option at the Le Méridien New Orleans hotel located at 333 Poydras Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70130. The Méridien rooms are $139.00 per night, for single or double occupancy. It is 3 minutes away from the Double Tree Hilton New Orleans. Please do not delay. reserve these rooms now and mail in your registration forms!! Here’s the link to book your group rate at the Le Méridien New Orleans hotel. At either hotel accessible rooms are available upon request. Room rates include Wi-Fi internet service and are guaranteed until June 24, 2024, one month prior to the reunion. Once this cutoff date has passed at both hotels, rates will be subject to the hotel’s discretion.
REGISTRATION
2024 O'Kelley Reunion Registration fees: Adults (Ages 20-64) - $170.00; Seniors (Ages 65+) -$120.00; Teens (Ages 13-19) -$90.00; and Youths (Ages 6-12) -$70.00. Registion for the 2024 O'Kelley Reunion closes on Monday, June 24, 2024. No reunion registratons will be accepted onsite.
There are two options to pay registration fees online, directly via WIX.com payments or through PayPal.com. Service fees apply for either option. Wix.com charges a 2.5% service fee on ticket sales. There are no services fees if you complete and mail the reunion registration form included with your official 2024 O'Kelley Reunion Letter. The link to the 2024 Reunion registration form .pdf is also available here at the top of the page: Events | BOFA, Inc (bofainc.org).
Optional Donations
The registation page offers the option to donate to your non-profit Black O'Kelleys Family Assocation (BOFA). Your donations to BOFA, Inc. are eligible for tax deductions. The Black O'Kelleys Family Association, Inc., was incorporated in 2020 to accumulate and preserve the genealogical records of the family, to inspire, inform, and connect interested O'Kelley Cousins around the world and to celebrate the achievements of the Black O'Kelley community. The mission of BOFA Inc. is to establish long lasting solutions for an inclusive, community driven, and intersectional approach to historic preservation in education, arts, and culture.
Donte: paypal.me/BOFAInc
There will be a BOFA, Inc. meeting at the 2024 Reunion where current board members will discuss the organization's purpose and mission and opportunities to serve in different committees or as board members.
The Black O'Kelleys Family Association (BOFA), Inc. is a Missouri non-profit corporation and 501(c)(3) public charity. Membership is available to:
- Descendants and extended family members of BOFA matriarch, Ellen Johnson Mathews Fisher; her children, including her sons Daniel Smith O'Kelley, Will Dock O'Kelley, and Charles Edward O'Kelley, their siblings, and their allied families.
- Registered participants of O'Kelley family reunions & assemblies.
- Anyone with interests in excelling the research and scholarship development efforts of the Black O'Kelleys Family Association, Inc.
- We welcome all O'Kelley family members, allied family members and supporters regardless of descent.
While donations to BOFA, Inc. are eligible for tax deductions, O'Kelley Family Reunion registration fees and associated expenses, however, are not tax-deductable. BOFA, Inc.'s federal tax identification number is 85-3606954.
- The registation page offers the option to donate to the Historic Preservation fund which supports the many O'Kelley family genealogical research efforts.
- The registration page offers the option to provide an additional donation to the general fund of the O'Kelley family reunion.
Schedule
1 day 5 hoursCheck in, registration and distribution of Reunion information packets.
Hospitality Room
2 hoursRooster/Hen Parties
TBD