Brown -- 70 years

Don and Aletha Brown of Jackson celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary Oct. 25 with a dinner hosted by their children.

Brown and the former Aletha Grant were married Oct. 26, 1947, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. The Rev. Walter Keisker performed the ceremony. Their attendants were Harold Grant and Virginia Brown.

The couple has two children, Donald and Marilyn Brown of Jackson and Tina and Bill Presser of Cape Girardeau. They have four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.