Vern and Joyce Prater, Warsaw, will mark their 40th wedding anniversary Sept. 20, 2008. Vern Prater and Joyce Akers were married Sept. 20, 1968, at First Baptist Church, Pierceton, with the Rev. Norman Uphouse officiating.
He works as a machinist at NG Instruments, and she is a homemaker.
The couple have two children, Kimberly (and spouse Ronald) Bolt, Warsaw, and the late Elizabeth Prater. They have four grandchildren.
The couple wil celebrate the anniversary in Lexington, Ky., at the Lexington Horse Park.
