Happy Birthday Mary Charlton

Mary, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And may you spend many, many more Happy Birthday's on the DELTA QUEEN!!!

We can only add our best wishes to the others. Celebrate your day with the knowledge that you and so many others are making the greatest effort so that the coming years can be celebrated on the DELTA QUEEN.
Ginnie and Ralph

Hi Mary,

Best wishes, always - have a wonderful Birthday!!

Pat

Thanks, all--what a beautiful day it is out here on the Ohio! As always, my crewmates are seeing to it that I have a good day. Rog, we miss you, and hope we will all be together again. Gave you a wave in the twilight as we passed Rising Sun. Mary

LInda & I send our best wishes for a glorious day today, and many more to come!
Steamcerely,
David D.
PS We REALLY miss you!! And everyone else on the boat too.

Mary,

A very happy birthday from the Upper Mississippi. Hope your day was a special one, loaded to the guards with good friends, good times, and good memories. Here's a happy birthday salute on the DQ's calliope south of Dubuque, especially for you. Next year at this time we all can celebrate your birthday and the continued operation of our beloved DELTA QUEEN!

Dear Steamboat Mary: Happy Birthday to you from one who is all tied up in knots!;-) Love, Bela

HBD SBM

We just got in from a double shift at the shipyard as work is so far behind schedule with so many celebratory closings this year, so forgive the late posting. Sorry, but no closing for you, Steamboat Mary, but only the very best wishes for a very Happy Birthday and a great year ahead with or without, our beloved DELTA QUEEN.

Where were you, and Roger for that matter, when I came alongside the DELTA QUEEN in a small boat and followed you up the river, in the dark, as you passed the Hash on your way upsteam headin' toward Rag Town? It was such an exciting passing that few will ever experience- to be a safe distance off the DELTA QUEEN as she thundered her way upriver on a night so dark that the steamboat seemed like a Japanese latern hung on an inky black background where sky, land, and river were all the same. I will never forget it.

Chiming in a little late here, Mary, but birthday wishes are heartfelt from Diane and me! Hope your river days and all your days are filled with the sense of adventure, pleasure and joy that you always instill in everyone around you. God bless and many happy returns. Love, Jazzou

Mary,

Happy Birthday and many, many more! I am so glad you got your dream on the DELTA QUEEN...I told you it would work out and it did!

Soon we will all be back together on her decks as we celebrate her return to service in 2009...for we will and we must!

~Travis~

Only the DELTA QUEEN calliope would be appropriate for your b-day...so this concert is on HER calliope

Yep! and we blowed a one whistle calliope salute to you on MISSIE's one-whistle calliope!
Best belated wishes and may you next one be on the DQ too! Cap'n Walnut.

Hapy Belated Birthday Mary! Come see us at the steamboat museum when you can! Christmas Open House is December 14th!

From the looks of things, it must have been one heck of a birthday salute. I wish that I was there to say happy birthday, but it's better late than never. Happy Birthday, Mary!

Happy Birthday and a Master's salute from the Magnolia Belle (actually I am on the M/V Hugh C. Blaske right now so I used a towboat whistle)!!

Capt. Joe
Magnolia Belle

Sure, have a birthday when we are internet challenged in the Great White North!

29, Right? Just behind my 39! Deb and I hope you had a lovely day and the next 6 are the greatest days of your life, if you catch my drift. And you can't believe how bad we want to be there to share the cake.

We always be jammin...and you know there is still the issue of THAT photo on Google... 😉

Love you,

B and Deb