Robert Earl and Ruth Frantz will mark their 50th wedding anniversary June 22, 2008. Robert Earl Frantz and Ruth Shoemaker were married June 22, 1958, in Akron, with the Rev. Harold Conrad officiating.
He is a full-time farmer, and she is a homemaker. They attend Believers Baptist Church.
The couple have four children: Tim Frantz and April Frantz, both of Warsaw; and Penny Bautch and Scott Frantz, both of Wisconsin. They have eight grandchildren.