Case 50th

CASE 50th

Ronald and Joan Case celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, with a golden wedding anniversary party hosted by their family in Tuttle Hall at the Lacey (Wash.) Church. More than 110 relatives and friends shared happy memories, listened as Ron and Joan’s son Brian played a violin solo that had been played at their wedding, and enjoyed a program narrated by their son Edward, along with a slideshow of many family pictures.

Ronald Case met Joan Harvey at Walla Walla College in College Place, Wash., where he was a senior religion major and she was a sophomore English major. After Ron’s 1965 graduation, he attended Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Joan attended La Sierra College in Riverside, Calif.

They were married on Sunday, Aug. 21, 1966, at the Adventist church in Eugene, Ore. After their wedding, Ron continued with medical school, and Joan completed her senior year at La Sierra College. After her graduation, Joan taught English in Fontana, Calif., for three years.

In 1970, after Ron’s medical school graduation and internship, Ron and Joan moved to Washington where their son Edward was born. Ron then worked as a family physician at the Steck Medical Clinic in Chehalis, Wash. Their son Brian was born in 1975.

In 1978 Ron took an allergy and immunology fellowship at the University of Wash., and in 1980, the family moved to Lacey, where Ron practiced allergy and immunology for 25 years in Olympia, Wash., until he retired. Joan taught ninth- and 10th-grade English and keyboarding at Olympia Junior Academy for several years.

Ron has served as an elder for 35-plus years, Olympia Junior Academy school board chairman for 10 years and on the Auburn Adventist Academy school board for many years. He is currently the personal ministries coordinator in Lacey Church. Ron now enjoys giving Bible studies and helping Edward with the Nedley Depression and Anxiety Recovery Program at the Lacey Church.

Joan has led primary Sabbath School, been a deaconess and Sabbath School superintendent, helped Ron organize vegetarian/vegan cooking schools, helped with the Depression and Anxiety Recovery Program, and, in earlier years, led Vacation Bible Schools and served as a member of the Washington Conference executive committee and board of education.

The Case family includes Ron’s mother, Ella Mae Case, 93; Edward and Jennifer (Davenport) Case of Olympia, Wash.; Brian Case of Indianapolis, Ind.; and 6 grandchildren.