SALT 65th
Frank and Virginia Salt recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary surrounded by more than 40 friends and family members. The happy couple met at Walla Walla College, which Frank chose because his Adventist friends from his hometown of Toronto, Ontario…
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Tom and Bonnie Sanford celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends on July 3, 2016 at their home church in Sequim, Wash. Their reception was themed “Around the World in 80 Days.”
Thomas L. Sanford met Bonnie J. Fike at…
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For 50 years Allan and Judith Sather have been celebrating life together. They brought family and friends together in El Dorado Hills, Calif., to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on July 10, 2016.
Allan met Judith Nickel at Pacific Union…
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William and Mary Jane Saunders celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Nov. 8, 2015, in College Place, Wash.
Bill met Mary Jane Jolly on a church-sponsored hayride in 1953. Bill entered the U.S. Coast Guard air rescue service in 1955 while Mary…
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Rhoda Lockert married Clifford Schlehuber on Jan. 7, 1948, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Among other things, Cliff worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Salmon, Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Upon moving to Nampa, Idaho, and Monida, Mont., they worked for…
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Seventy years to the day after Fred Schnibbe and Verona Montanye got married, they returned to the Marcus Whitman Hotel and Conference Center in Walla Walla, Wash., for a celebratory dinner at The Marc, this time accompanied by their sons and daughters-in-…
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Carlos and Mary Schwantes celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family on Oct. 28, 2016, in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., at the historic Greenbrier Hotel. The celebration was a little later than their actual wedding anniversary of Sept. 4 so their…
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David "Ray" and Colleen Shaver celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on March 15 with a family dinner in Medford, Oregon.
Ray and Colleen met in Wenatchee, Washington, when he started attending the Wenatchee Church upon the invitation of a…
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Lorrell Dwight Smick and Shirley Mae Lewis were married on Saturday evening, Aug. 27, 1955, in Olympia, Wash. Shirley and Lorrell met at Walla Walla College (WWC) where Lorrell was studying zoology and Shirley secretarial science. Lorrell first remembers…
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Ron and Kathy Smith celebrated their 50th anniversary with a family picnic at Wildwood Recreation Area near Mt. Hood in Welches, Ore., on Aug. 9, 2014, and a family banquet on Aug. 10, followed by a vacation on San Juan Island in Puget Sound in September.…
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Vanoy "Van" and Joan (Dietrich) Smith celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 11, 2013, while at their annual Dietrich reunion in Troutlake, Wash. They were honored earlier by their children at a family gathering.
Van and Joan met at the…
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Bill Smith and Sue McDaniel were both born in Montana, and both their families later moved to Alaska, where they met and became friends. Shortly after Bill and Sue became engaged, Sue’s family moved back to Montana. Sue and Bill were married Aug. 11, 1956, at…
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Richard and Sharon Smith celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, at the home of their daughter, Julie. After a family dinner, the family enjoyed sharing of memories.
Richard met Sharon Lorren at Auburn (Wash…
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John and Kathy Smith celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on June 3, 2014. John H. Smith and Kathleen Doleman met at Walla Walla College in 1952 and were married in Cottage Grove, Ore., on June 3, 1954.
During their first year of married life…
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John and Ruby (Kruger) Stafford celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 19, 2018, at the fellowship hall of the Village Church in College Place, Wash. Helping them celebrate was their family, numerous friends and relatives.
They met at…
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Recently Tom and Brooke Stafford celebrated their 60th anniversary by climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia. Besides touring east Australia, they enjoyed several fun-packed days with their family on the Puget Sound in Washington state.
…
Read MoreSTATES 70th
Newton and Esther States celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Aug. 21, 2016, with a reception in Emmett, Idaho.
Newton States married Esther Pack on Aug. 10, 1946, in Boise, Idaho. Newton worked as a laborer for several years then became a…
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A reception was held on Aug. 36, 2018, at the St. Helena (Calif.) Church’s fireside room in honor of Claude and Doris Sterling's 65th wedding anniversary with 90 people in attendance.
Claude was born in Chehalis, Wash. In 1939, he was baptized in…
Read MoreSTONE 50th
In September 1966, Curt Stone, a police science major, met Maggi Brodie, a home economics major, at Sierra College near Rocklin, Calif.
After graduation, the couple was married on July 8, 1969. Curt became a deputy sheriff at Truckee, Calif. He later…
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On May 3, 2015, Charles and Judy Summers’ children honored them with a gathering of family and friends for the rededication of their vows from May 1, 1965. Charles and Judy were married in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho.
After they married, they moved from…
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