Wedding Bells

It's January 27 at the First United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Oklahoma, and Libbie Peterson Miller has married Charlie Britton.

This love story has a fifty-year history. In her senior year at SHS, Libbie dated two "older men" from the class of '56, Ed Miller and Charlie Britton--who were, in fact, close friends.

Ed won her hand and they married soon after her graduation, on July 19, 1958. They settled in Oklahoma, raised 3 children and 6 grandchildren, and lived happily together until March 3, 2000, when Ed passed away from a recurrence of melanoma.

Libbie kept busy with family, administrative work at Oklahoma City University, and substitute teaching in two school districts. When the Class of 1956 sent her a notice of their 50th Reunion, she and Charlie found each other's addresses and began to correspond.

Charlie Britton served in the Military Police at West Point and in Germany. He settled in Boston, married, and supervised a metallurgical research lab for Texas Instruments. Later he divorced and moved to Flagstaff, where he ran the Developmental Machine Facility at Northern State University.

Before and after his 50th Reunion, Charlie visited Libbie in Oklahoma and met her family. They became engaged in September and set the January wedding date.

Now Libbie's name will be Mrs. Charles B. Britton, while in our directory she is Libbie Peterson Britton. She and Charlie will live at her home address, and they are making plans to travel.

As I see it, the moral of this story is three-fold:

1. Old feelings never die.
2. Stay in touch with early friends.
3. Don't ignore Reunion mail.

Congratulations from all of us to the happy couple!