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Show Golden Wedding Is Marked By Delta Couple "rhiTweek the T. C. Gronning home in Delta is filled with family fam-ily and friends here to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of this Delta couple. Mr. and Mrs. Gronning .were wed in the Salt Lake Temple Oct. 4, 1889. Their home has been in Delta since 1911 and they have a host of friends here happy to help them mark the festive occasion. Tuesday afternoon was open house honoring the couple, and during the afternoon they received best wishes and many gifts from their friends. Assisting them in receiving re-ceiving were their six children all home for the occasion, Erma Davenport Dav-enport Kansas City; Esther Lauber San Francisco; Victoria Peterson, Lima Mont., Louise Marsh, Twin Falls, and Carlisle and Vernon Gronning, from Milford. Coming also for the party were Kenneth Davenport and Raymond Peterson, sons-in-law, and Mrs. Carlisle Gronning and Mrs. Vernon Gronning and children. Members of Mrs. Gronning's family who are here include four sisters, a brother broth-er a brother-in-law and a niece. They are Mrs. Rose Allen and Peter Fuller, Stewart Dolby all of Baker, Ore., Mrs. Louise Kallas, Oroville, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rose, Sacramento, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. Otto Steinbach, Bountiful, and Mr. and Mrs. David Nelson Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Ariz. Mr. Gronning has two sisters here, Mrs. Mary Sheller and Mrs. R. V. Wise and sons, Harold and Rollin of Salt Lake City. Old friends and neighbors here are Mr. and Mrs. Marion Grundy from Salt Lake City. Fall flowers decorated the home and serving table. Refreshments were served from a lace-covered table where the centerpiece was a 3-tiered wedding cake decorated in white and gold. A large bowl of golden chrysanthemums was on the table, which was lit with white tapers. For her golden wedding day Mrs. Gronning wore a floor-length floor-length gown of aqua blue, trimmed trim-med with brilliants. A program is being held n the Delta high school aduitorium at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Gronning to which every one is invited. This will be followed follow-ed by dancing in the gymnasium. |