Dunks 60th

DUNKS 60th

Wallace and Gerion Dunks celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Oct. 1, 2016, at the Springfield Church fellowship hall. Neighbors, business associates and church members gathered to celebrate and thank the Dunks for all they had done for individuals and for the church. About 50 cards of congratulations were received.

Wally and Geri met 60 years ago in Yuba City, Calif. It was a beautiful Sabbath in early September 1956. Three weeks and one day later Wallace Dunks and Gerion Sullivan were married in a lovely ceremony at the Yuba City Adventist Church, surrounded by family and friends.

Wally was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist faith and attended Adventist schools and was baptized as a youth. Geri was baptized April 2, 1955. She worked at the Fremont Hospital as bookkeeper and receptionist. Wally was a partner with the Peterson Construction Co. He later started his own trucking company which he drove for and managed until he was 88 years old.

The Dunks mutually agreed to move to Oregon for better employment opportunities and chose Springfield, Ore., for their home in 1957. They promptly became members of the Springfield Church and began serving energetically and continue to do so.

Wally has served as head elder, deacon, junior division teacher and greeter among other duties. Geri has served as Sabbath School Superintendent, Adult Sabbath School teacher, treasurer, clerk and both worked with the late Jim McHan with the churches' Better Living and Stop Smoking seminars. Both continue to welcome members and visitors at the door and give them warm welcomes and strong handshakes or hugs.

The Dunks family includes daughter, Dixie Wurscher (her husband, David, died in plane accident) of Eugene, Ore.; son, Mike and Connie Rohlf-Dunks of Jasper, Ore.; 3 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.