Sixteen couples celebrated fifty-plus years of marriage during a Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Church on Sunday, July 8, 2018.
Rev. Arthur Mattulke, Pastor, blessed the couples following a renewal of their marriage vows and presented them with a commemorative scroll signed by His Excellency the Most Reverend Richard J. Malone, Th.D., Bishop of Buffalo. A reception for the couples and their families followed in the Social Center.
From left: John and Eleanor Byrne - 60 years; Edwin and Carolyn Drabek - 58 years; David and Joan Conrad - 55 years; Paul and Christine McGrath - 50 years; Edward and Rosa Tutuska - 50 years; Eugene and Judith Smolinski - 51 years.
From left: Thomas and Arline Walton - 62 years; Donald and Joann Eichler - 50 years; Michael and Trish Goergen - 50 years; Bob and Lucia Youngers - 50 years; Richard and Kathleen Weber - 50 years.
Also celebrating but not pictured: Norman and Elsie Hertz - 60 years; Robert and Estelle Lange - 70 years; George and Rita Mandiak, 67 years; William and Shirley Schara, 58 years; Peter and Rosemary Shadle, 50 years.