Jim and Lola Pettyjohn

The family of Jim and Lola Pettyjohn is inviting family and friends to help celebrate the couple’s 65th wedding anniversary. The celebration will be held Sunday, Sept. 6 from 2-4 p.m. at the Family Closet building, 205 Tumbleweed Blvd., Irrigon. The couple requests no gifts.

Jim Pettyjohn and Lola McCabe were married in 1950. Longtime Morrow County residents, the Pettyjohns now live in McNary (Umatilla), Ore. Jim is a retired farmer and truck driver, and Lola is a homemaker.

The couple has four children: Earl Pettyjohn, Anchorage, Alaska; Linda Groce, Boardman; Jerry Pettyjohn, Heppner; and Nancy Lancaster, Oak Harbor, Wash. They also have five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.