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Show Horton's plan Golden Wedding where he served as bishop of the Greenville Ward for two years. In 1956 they moved to Beaver. . . . . They have served a mission mis-sion to England for eight months and sixteen months in the western States. Macel has been active in the church, holding many offices. An Open House honoring the Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary Anni-versary of Mr. and Mrs. George Alfred Horton, Sr., better known as "Alf and Macel" to their many friends, will attract much of Beaver County Saturday night. Friends and relatives will join the couple from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Beaver Second Ward Cultural Cultur-al Hall. The spry couple are bona -fide pioneers of Beaver County. Alf was born in Greenville in 1901 and Macel in Milford in 1907. They have spent their entire lives in Milford, except for time spent on a mission to England En-gland and to the western states for the LDS Church. They were married in 1926, and have three children; chil-dren; George A., Jr., who wrote "An Early History of Milford" in 1957 for his Masters Thesis at BYU. He later earned his Doctorate and presently is in the Dept. of Seminary and Institute for the LDS Church in Salt Lake City. He taught seminary in Milford his first year out of college. Son Dick is Vice President Presi-dent in charge of sales for Microtech in Salt Lake City. He is going to serve as mission mis-sion president in East Lansing, Lan-sing, Mich, in the near future fu-ture and is the reason that the Hortons have pushed the Open House to May instead in-stead of in July on their anniversary. Another son, Donald Earl, is a salesman in Pomona, Calif. The Hortons have twenty-three grandchildren. Alf is a retired conductor from the Union Pacific Railroad. Rail-road. They moved from Milford Mil-ford to Greenville in 1947, |