50th Anniversary

Tomorrow is our 50th wedding anniversary. It seems like quite an accomplishment to me!

When Eldon told his Dad he was getting engaged, his Dad told him to think about it seriously because 50 years is a long time to sit across from the same face at breakfast!  But through the good times and the bad, the fun times and the sad, he's been there for me. He made up his mind early on to stick with his commitment, no matter how confining or irritating it might become at times.

I suspect it was one of the kids put an article in the Gazette Times about it. We would never have seen it since we don't take the paper any more, but our friends the Tingeys, saw it and e-mailed a note of congratulations to us.  For those of you who don't take the paper, here's the article quoted:

"Janeil and Eldon Olsen of Corvallis will observe their 50th wedding anniversary on June 8, 2014.

"Janeil Fugal and Eldon Olsen were married June 8 1964, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

"Eldon and Janeil have lived in Utah, Connecticut, Indiana, Montana and Oregon. Eldon was a professor at Oregon State University and Janeil was a secretary at the Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion next to the OSU campus. After retirement they served missions for their church in San Diego, Baltimore and Nauvoo, Illinois.

"They now reside in Corvallis, where Eldon volunteers for Dial-A-Bus. They have five children, all married; 21 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren."

Almost reads like an obituary! It's factual except that we only have 6 great-grandchildren. But who knows, maybe another is on the way and I just don't know about it yet!

Thanks to whomever wrote the article. I also think Sheryl and Brenda have plans for an FHE at the reunion that might include mention of our 50th. Can't wait to be together at the reunion.