Anniversaries
Bakersfield’s track relay team competed at sectionals last week, and while they didn’t advance to state, the team did achieve a personal record. Shown are Nathan Watlington, Gaige Samuels, Coach Tammy Lamb, Jacob Watlington, Brooks Amburgy, Amani Kowiti and assistant Kurt Watlington.
Former Ozark County residents Orin and Ima Jean Robinson will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary on Feb. 24, 2022, by sharing a meal with family and friends at their home in Sherwood, Arkansas.
Well wishes, cards and correspondence can be mailed to the couple by sending to daughter Janet...
Eldon and Genelle Quick Mahan today and in 1949
Eldon and Genelle Quick Mahan celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at a family gathering on March 16. The Gainesville-area natives were married March 26, 1949, in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Eldon, the son of Homer and Faye Mahan, met Genelle, the daughter of Ben and Lena Quick, at Skeeter’s Cafe...
Harold and Velma Strain
Harold and Velma Strain of Howards Ridge will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary at a party hosted by their family from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at Mammoth Assembly of God on T Highway south of Gainesville.
Harold Strain grew up in Clarkridge, Arkansas, the son of Jess and Della Strain....
Robert L. and Connie Jo Bushner celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on Aug. 3. The couple was married at St. Mark’s Methodist Church in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 3, 1963; they honeymooned in Reno, Nevada, for two days and then drove to Iowa to celebrate with Connie’s famiiy, including a...
Pontiac residents Al and Sharon Davidson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 6 and plan to mark the occasion by returning to Niagara Falls, where they honeymooned in 1968. Sharon grew up near Minot, North Dakota, the daughter of Audrey and John Opitz. Al was raised in New Hyde Park on...
Roger and Beverly Anderson, then and now.
Roger and Beverley Anderson marked their 50th wedding anniversary last week, but they’re waiting until their daughter, Shelly Peterson, can be here in July to celebrate.Roger, an Ozark County native, met Beverly Ann Lee in Springfield when he was working at McDonald’s while attending vo tech school...
Wasola residents Royce and Evelyn Eslinger recently celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary.Royce was born in 1922 in a log cabin at Romance, the son of Fred and Drotha Gardner Eslinger. Evelyn was born in 1925 in Warner, North Dakota, the daughter of Scott and Gladys Hill Price. Her family moved...
Barbara and Jerry Holt of Gainesville will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary May 24 at the home of their daughter and son-in-law in Utah, where they will be joined by 25 other relatives and friends from throughout the country. Barbara Jeanne Thompson was born in Maine, and Jerry Lee Holt was...
Jerry and Gail Austin
Jerry and Gail Austin of Theodosia celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Jan. 27 with a reception hosted by their daughter, Sabrina Gail Austin, at the Seventh and Mueller Church of Christ in Paragould, Arkansas. They both grew up in the Paragould area – Jerry in town and Gail in the country....