A big steak dinner with all the trimmings, wine glasses tinkling, and humongous slices of Mrs. Smith’s Apple Pie Crisp were enjoyed on Friday, Sept. 5, celebrating 60 years of marriage by Milt and Joelle Keizer of Fall City.

Their family—granddaughter Amanda Kain, Lance Keizer, Joelle, Milt, daughter Wendy Kain, Colin Keizer, and grandson Kyle Kain—are pictured at the North  Bend Pub & Grill. Congratulations and flowers were sent from Spokane by their son Robin and his wife Michelle.

Milt and Joelle met at the University of Iowa in 1952, and were married in the spring of 1954,  with Joelle graduating in 1955 and Milt finishing his fourth year in 1968. In the interim between those dates, they raised four children, while Milt worked five years in Cedar Rapids for Link-Belt Speeder Inc.’s shop and parts department and seven years as that company’s manager, for Canadian Parts Operations in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. With a 1968 journalism degree in hand, Milt and family moved to the state of Washington, where they now reside, in Fall City.