Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beel of Cape Girardeau hosted a reception Aug. 29, 2009, at Drury Lodge in observance of their 50th wedding anniversary.
Beel and Shirley Schwartz were married Aug. 29, 1959, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, Mo., by Monsignor Joseph Keusenkothen.
Their attendants were Mary Jean Dohogne Strack, Charles Beel, Cordelia Schrock Peters, Herman Peters, Pat Reinagel Kirn, John F. Schwartz, Mary Jane Schwartz Spinks, and the late Gerald Glastetter.
The couple has a son, Thomas Gerald Beel, who is deceased.
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