Soden 60th
Carl and Dorothy Soden celebrated their 60th anniversary on Dec. 21, 2006.
The couple was married on Dec. 21, 1946.
Carl was a recreation center director.
Dorothy was a teacher at St. Pat’s and Riley Elementary schools.
Both are retired.
The couple’s children are Dr. Doris Butler of Wichita and the late Sara Soden.
Johnson 50th
Harve and Roberta Johnson of Hutchinson will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a reception for friends and family at 2 p.m. on Dec. 30, 2006 at Holiday Inn Express, near E. 17th and 61 highway, Hutchinson.
Harve Johnson and Roberta Foree were married Jan 19, 1957, in Great Bend.
Harve was a middle school math teacher, retiring from Liberty Jr. High.
Roberta ran a daycare in her home.
Hosts for the reception will be the couple’s children Harve Jr. and Lori Johnson of Lenexa and Michael and Cherie Johnson of Huntington Beach, Calif.; and brother C.D. and Jolene Johnson of Great Bend.
The couple has five grandchildren.
Cards may be sent to 2601 N. Monroe, Hutchinson, KS, 67502.
Adams 60th
Harry and Barbara Adams of Great Bend celebrated their 60th anniversary in October, 2006 with a family dinner in Wichita. Harry Adams and Barbara Bryant were married on Oct. 11, 1946, in Great Bend.
Harry was employed as an oil consultant.
Hosts for the dinner were the couple’s children, Kent Adams of Hutchinson, Brenda Ybarra of Mound Valley, Lynn Adams of Hays and Gale Briscoe of Wichita.
The couple has seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Cards may be sent to 1450 18th, Great Bend, KS 67530.
Bird 65th
Lee Bird, son of Elmer and Bernice Bird and Lee’s wife Helen, daughter of Charles and Dora Dorfshaffer, will celebrate their 65th anniversary on Dec. 14, 2006.
Both were born and raised in Great Bend. One week after Pearl Harbor, they married in the Randolph Field Air Base Chapel, where Lee Bird was completing his flight training in the Army Air Corps before duty as a B-17 bomber pilot in the South Pacific.
The Bird’s eldest daughter, Sue, was born while Lee Bird was overseas.
He came home with the rank of Captain after the war, but remained a pilot in the Air Corps.
The Bird family moved, as Mr. Bird’s assignments changed.
Their second daughter, Beth, was born in Nebraska, their son Steve, in Alaska, and their youngest son, Stan, was born after Mr. Bird was transferred back to Texas.
When Captain Bird resigned from the Air Corps, the family moved to their roots in Great Bend, where they farmed for six years before Mr. Bird was hired as an airline pilot for a commercial airline based, once again, in Alaska.
Through the above moves, and others later, these children of Great Bend have had many experiences – most good, some not so good – as is always the case.
They are thankful to still be together after all of these years and would love to get a card from anyone who remembers them.
Cards may be sent c/o Sue Johnson, 895 Stillwater Drive, Coos Bay, OR 97420 or e-mail correspondence to bdjsey@aol.com
