I have recently been researcing the Hapner family as a gift for my mother. Her father was Dale Andrew Hapner, brother to Eldon, Jesse, Margy, Leone, John. Just Friday, I met a woman at the Hillsboro Library who told me she had been in contact with Johnnie Kay, your aunt or mother, (a few years ago). I have very little information at this time. I have a little information on Dell and Laura (Smith) Hapner, Eldon's grandparents and of course my more immediate family. I have been searching in Bond County and Montgomery County for records and have found a few. Randolph County (Chester, Il.) is the birth place of Dell Hapner and I will visit there as time permits. I was a yound girl when Laura was living but I was three when Dell died and don't remember him. I am hoping that the elderly sister of Mary Hapner (deceased)wife of John Hapner (deceased), will be able to shed more light on the family.