Biegler 50th

BIEGLER 50th

Keith Biegler and Judy Decker were married Sept. 6, 1964, in the Walla Walla College (now Walla Walla University) Church chapel.

On Aug. 16, 2014, they celebrated their 50th anniversary with family and friends at a get-together given by their two daughters at the Vert Club Room in Pendleton, Ore., where they have lived 50 years.

Keith met Judy Decker at Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle, Wash., when she was a junior and he a senior. They were married two and half years later.

Keith worked at Harris Pine Mills from 1962 until it closed in 1991. At the time of Keith’s retirement, he was working at Fleetwood Travel Trailers in Pendleton.

Judy was a stay-at-home mom until their girls were in school, then she was a teacher at a preschool day care until it closed 10 years later. During the next 18 years, she did day care in their home then cared for her mom at their home for three and a half years. At the time of Judy’s retirement, she was the head housekeeper at Holiday Inn in Pendleton.

Keith was a head deacon a few years. Judy is a deaconess and has been for many years. She also continues to help in the beginner’s class, as she has for the past 28 years and babysits at MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers).

Their family includes Denise and Kurt Sherman of Medford, Ore.; Lisa and Rocky Whitman of Pendleton, Ore.; 4 grandchildren, a step-grandson and 2 great-grandchildren.