Ringering 50th

RINGERING 50th

Arnold and Margaret Ringering celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception on May 8, 2020, at the Hood View Church in Boring, Oregon.

Arnold and Margaret met while they were both working at United Medical Laboratory in Portland, Oregon. They married in a private home on May 8, 1970, in Estacada, Oregon. Arnold was 50, and Margaret was 36. It was a second marriage for both. Arnold had three grown daughters, and Margaret had two girls in high school and two boys in grade school. Arnold adopted the boys a few years later. 

A year after marrying they moved to Montana, where they lived much of their life. Arnold worked much of that time for Christian Record Braille Foundation, traveling all over the state. They spent his last year with Christian Record in Hawaii.

Upon returning to Montana, Arnold retired. Then Margaret decided to go to school to become a nurse. She graduated from Northern Montana College in 1986. She worked most of her nursing career as a traveling nurse, working in Idaho, Arizona and Alaska. Arnold always traveled with her and took care of the house and sometimes also worked, as an orderly.

The couple participated in a couple short mission trips, one to American Samoa and one to Peru. Margaret also did a mission trip to Honduras with one of her friends. They moved to Alaska in 1995, where Margaret worked in home health. They loved Alaska, but they moved back to Oregon in 1999 for health reasons and to be closer to some of their children. They lived at the Village Retirement Center for several years, before volunteering at Weimar in California for a year. They now reside in Boring and are still members of the Village Church.

Their family includes Arnold's daughters and sons-in-law, Noreen (Ringering) and Jim Carey of Selah, Washington; Phyllis (Ringering) and Walt Mow of Yakima, Washington; Jane (Ringering) Briggs of Walla Walla, Washington; Margaret's children, Twyla (Young) McIntyre of Boring, Oregon; Paula (Young) McIntyre of Albany, Oregon; Richard Ringering of Troutdale, Oregon; and Gene Ringering of Aurora, Oregon. Together they have 13 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.