Merry Chrismukkah: Family easily combines Christmas, Hanukkah celebrations.

Byline: Joe Rodriguez, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.

Dec. 24--Tonight, Larry and Kimarie Funschelle will attend a Christmas Eve service at a Wichita church with their two children and other family members.

On Christmas morning, their two children -- Jacob, 9, and Aliyah, 7 -- will rush to the Christmas tree to open gifts.

Then at sunset Sunday, the Funschelles will gather to pray and light the first candles of three menorahs -- one for Larry and Kimarie and one each for the children. The children will open a few more gifts for the first night of Hanukkah.

The Funschelles are an interfaith family -- Kimarie is Christian, and Larry and the children are Jewish -- that ...

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