MacKenzie 50th

MACKENZIE 50th

Ed and Ruth MacKenzie celebrated thier 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday morning, June 29, 2014, after the Washington Conference Camp Meeting at the Auburn City (Wash.) Church with a brunch in the fellowship hall. There were about 70 family and friends that helped them celebrate.

Edward Roy MacKenzie and Ruth Earlene Gilliland met at Walla Walla College (now Walla Walla University) while working in the college laundry. They were married in the new college chapel by Richard Litke on June 21, 1964. They spent a week at Lehman Hot Springs near Pilot Rock, Ore., for their honeymoon.

After they both finished college, Ed took a job in Roslyn, Wash., as an accountant for the Roslyn Telephone Co. Later they moved to Whidbey Island, where Ed worked for the South Whidbey Telephone Co. After retirement in 2003, they have been kept busy enjoying mission work, church work and apartment work, besides growing a big garden and fruit trees. They both enjoy bird-watching.

Their family includes Vaughn MacKenzie of Kennewick, Wash.; Lawana (MacKenzie) and Mike Ballance of Herald, Calif.; Jon and Jenny (Hooker) MacKenzie of Covington, Wash.; Richard and Jill (Duncan) MacKenzie of Vancouver, Wash.; and 10 grandchildren.