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Couples, by Senior Editor Bill Snead, celebrates weddings and special anniversaries in Lawrence and appears Sunday in the Journal-World.
- Love blossoms after 30-year wait
- September 10, 2006
- Dot and Gary Beckner are sitting on their living room couch, near the Douglas County Fairgrounds, blissfully recounting their unusual love story. They’re close enough you couldn’t get a piece of paper between them. Gary’s arm is draped gently around his wife’s shoulders. They’re both 53 and have been married “nearly 11 months.”
- Retired educators celebrate 50 years of marriage in Maui
- August 27, 2006
- Darrell and Carol Falen have warm memories of their wedding day. It was June 23, 1956, at Winfield’s First Methodist Church.
- Wedding day includes two ceremonies, fishing trip
- August 20, 2006
- In January 2001, Randy McIntosh and Sarah Walker were paired up in a game of pool at Emerson Biggins in Lawrence, where Randy was a manager. Sarah, a Kansas University student, needed a partner, and her friends coaxed her into “flirting with him.”
- High school sweethearts run in family
- August 13, 2006
- Laura Korb and Brad Reischman, both of Tonganoxie, found love in the same place that their parents did: high school.
- KU stadium holds memorable moments for law students
- August 6, 2006
- Memorial Stadium is a special place for a pair of 2005 Kansas University School of Law graduates.
- Internet connects blues fans
- July 30, 2006
- Late one evening, about a year ago, Jim Lanius was visiting with Valerie Paulsen in her living room. Jim brought up the subject of marriage, something he’d danced around before during their four-year relationship.
- Cupid hits target through Internet
- July 23, 2006
- Just more than a year ago, Rita Manning lived in Fresno, Calif., and was trying to figure out what to do with her life. She had raised five of her late husband’s children, fought through major health problems and was looking for a way to shift gears and move on. She was 48.
- Wedding date leads to own
- July 16, 2006
- About a week after their wedding, Lea King and her husband, Andy, both 31, were talking about the big event in their lives.
- Couple include love of sports on big day
- July 9, 2006
- Customizing the wedding experience to reflect personal tastes and creating new traditions is a popular trend for today’s couples. In the case of Jackie Dubois and Adam Miller, that meant turning a daily routine into a wedding day ritual.
- Longtime classmates wed in McLouth
- July 2, 2006
- Brad Barker, 23 and Heidi Karn, 22, first met 14 years ago in McLouth's elementary school. They were 8-year-olds in Vickie Estle's third-grade class. Heidi remembers it well.
- Romance blooms in Alaska
- June 25, 2006
- Michelle Bland, 30, grew up in the Lawrence area, graduated from Lawrence High School in 1994 and went on to get a degree in education from Principia College in Elsah, Ill. Today she lives in Bethel, Alaska, teaching fourth-graders.
- Courtship leads to big proposal
- June 18, 2006
- Anna Harvey, 23, first noticed Stephen Vinson, 22, when was a sophomore playing basketball for Lawrence High School and she was rooting for rival Free State High School as a cheerleader her junior year.
- New York meeting prompts romance
- June 11, 2006
- When Margot Keizer first met Michael Zigmont, she was with a group of friends having a drink after work. Michael had been invited by a Wall Street co-worker, who was Margot’s former classmate at the University of Virginia.
- The right prescription
- KU class connects pharmacy students
- June 4, 2006
- Betsey Johnson met Nick Gallinger when they were undergraduates at Kansas University, both taking the same path toward a doctorate in pharmacy. They spoke, but that was about it.
- Cake and a reception, at last
- Harrells mark 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends
- May 28, 2006
- Helen Herchell was nearly 19 and Skip Harrell was 26 when a Justice of the Peace married them in Raton, N.M. Their honeymoon was the ride home in a black ’51 Ford, back to Clinton where both had been raised. Rose-covered cottages were not in their budget, so they moved in with Skip’s father, who welcomed his son’s help on the dairy farm.
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