Family: LaVerne Herbert Spears / Edna Iona Vilven Spears

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Anniversary- Spears, LaVerne and Edna 1

Spears Couple Will Observe Golden Anniversary Sunday

A golden wedding anniversary open house will honor Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne H. Spears from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 4, 1977, in the Rossville United Methodist Church, Rossville, Ks.

Friends and relatives are invited to attend; the couple requests that no gifts be presented.

Hosts will be their daughters and sons-in-law, Helen and Leonard Cook, and Ruth and Bill Larson, all of Rossville.

Edna Vilven and LaVerne Spears were married December 3, 1927, in Seneca, Ks. They have operated a farm near Rossville since 1928. Mr. Spears served as agency manager of Farm Bureau Insurance Services in Shawnee County 32 years until he recently retired. He served 10 years in the Kansas House of Representatives; served 17 years as councilman or mayor of Rossville City; two years as president of Kansas League of Municipalities; and was Worthy Grand Patron of Grand Chapter of Kansas Eastern Star in 1962-63. Mrs. Spears is past president of the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas, and past president of the Legislative Wives Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Spears have five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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