Anniversaries from August 2008

Capps celebrate 50 years (08/10/08)
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Capps of Lubbock, Texas, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 9, 2008, with a family trip to the Current River and Big Spring Park near Van Buren. A reception was held in their honor at First Baptist Church of Van Buren, hosted by their children, Ken Capps and wife, Kristi, of Evergreen, Colo.; Ben Capps and wife, Catherine, of Kansas City; Karen Drake and husband, Joel, of Meadow, Texas...

Sisters celebrate 50th anniversaries (08/31/08)
Three area sisters and their husbands have the unique circumstance of jointly celebrating their golden wedding anniversaries in 2008. In April of 1958, Shirley Thurston married Wayne Zimmerman and that began a trend in the Thurston family. Shirley's sister, Melba, soon followed suit when she wed Jim Baker just a month later in May. ...