Eldred and Louise Metzger, Ind. 13, Claypool, are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary Sunday at an open house in their honor. Eldred and the former Louise Penrod were married Jan. 14, 1939. He was a farmer, school bus driver, sold DeKalb seed corn, owned and operated Junction 13 & 14 Service Center and was the Jackson Township precinct committeeman for many years. At 96, he still gardens, mows lawn and maintains his home on Ind. 13. Louise has been a homemaker, bookkeeper, tractor driver, Sunday school teacher and she likes to refinish furniture. The couple have a daughter, Carolyn Smith, Fort Wayne; three grandchildren: Mark Smith, Huntertown; Brian Smith and Dawn Nofzinger, both of Garrett; three great-grandsons: Scott, Samson and Sullivan Nofzinger, Garrett; and four stepgrandchildren. The open house will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Eel River Community Church of the Brethren, Ind.a 14, 2.5 miles west of Ind. 13. They request no gifts.
