James - 50 years

Mr. and Mrs. Milton James of Jackson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner Feb. 5, 2011, at St. Paul Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall.

Hosts were their children and grandson.

James and Arlene Petzoldt were married Feb. 5, 1961, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, by the Rev. Walter Keisker. They were the last couple to get married in the old St. Paul Church.

The couple has three children, Paul (Natalie) of Mead, Colo., Karen and Nathan of Cape Girardeau; and a grandson, Wyatt Prentice of Mead.