I was just 20 by a week, and Jim was 21. We were married by Judge Thorpe at the court house in Olympia, Washington at about 7:30 PM.
Jim’s parents and a friend had driven all the way from Iowa to attend the wedding (parents do that sort of thing) of their only son. We didn’t know they were coming, and it was quite a surprise when they drove in the driveway of my parent’s house in Tumwater a couple days before the wedding.
Jim and Carol Yates Wilkerson
09 September 1970
Those attending the wedding were: Gale and Joan Yates (my parents); Dave, Kathy and Eric Yates; Lenny and Judy Wallace; Will and Josie Yates; Ron Rutherford; Rose Atchinson; Loren and Toots Wilkerson.
Jim and Carol Yates Wilkerson
40th Anniversary 2010
Thanks Ben, and belated Happy Anniversary to you and your wife, as well as 30th birthday wishes. I just turned 60..twice your age.
Thank you too to John. I appreciate the poem and congrats!
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Hey, congratulations! My wife and I turned 30 this year, and we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary in January. We look forward to many more years of marriage
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Congratulations Jim and Carol on your 40th anniversary. We have 4 more years to go before we reach that milestone.
Years ago, I wrote a poem for my parents 40th (and later modified it for the in-laws 50th) – I call it
Forty Years of Love
I begins:
40 Years of Love
Together Hand in Hand
As on the Day They Met
Together Hand in Hand
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Now knowing that you celebrate the occasion, I’ll publish the complete poem later today on my Ask The Blogster blog at asktheblogster.blogspot.com
Congratulations once again
JL…………..