Graham and Wilma Meier, 204 S. Syracuse-Webster Road, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Wawasee Heights Baptist Church.
Graham Roy Meier and the former Wilma Lee Goins were married April 2, 1951, at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, by Chaplain Hans Sandrock.
A farmer, Graham graduated from Greensburg High School in 1947, earned a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1968, from Purdue University. He was a supervisor of DHIA. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1950-54 in the Korean War. He was stationed in Japan and Korea from 1953-54. He taught agriculture, general science, industrial arts, auto mechanics and New Washington, Madison, Triton Central and Hagerstown high schools and Warsaw junior and senior high schools. He was a substitute teacher at Wawasee Schools. He was a radiological defense officer for Clark County Civil Defense, Jeffersonville, from 1962-67. He worked at Maple Leaf feed mill and Chore Time-Brock. He is a former 35-year member of Milford Lions.
Both are members of Wawasee Heights Baptist Church and Wawasee Gideons and Auxiliary.
Wilma grew up on a farm near Madison. She graduated from North Madison High School in 1949. She worked at Campus Cabin Hanover College; Syracuse Enterprises; Kinro in Syracuse, Goshen and Bristol; and drove a school bus for Triton Central for two years.
The couple have three sons, Gary and Joe, both of Syracuse, and Jerry, Scottsburg; two daughters, Katherine Parker (and spouse Phil) Herbertz, Avon, and Carol (and spouse Ray) Spires, Jimtown; six grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
