Birk - 50 years

TAMMS, Ill. -- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Birk of Tamms will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary July 7, 2007, at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau.

Birk and Shirley Jean Hornback were married June 30, 1957, at Concordia Lutheran Church in Sikeston, Mo.

Their children and spouses are Charles Jr. and Teresa Birk and Gary and Yvonne Birk, all of Tamms, and Gena and Raymond Oxford of McClure, Ill. They have six grandchildren, Carmen and Kyle Birk, Derek and Jessica McNelly, Jordan Oxford, and Kara Birk; and three great-grandchildren, Breyden Martin, Juliana and Devin McNelly.