{"id":20894,"date":"2020-02-16T18:32:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=20894"},"modified":"2020-02-16T19:14:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T19:14:49","slug":"our-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=20894","title":{"rendered":"Our 50th Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
\n

Friday night, February 14th, Sherelne and I celebrated our 50th Anniversary surrounded by family and friends! We renewed our vows and then joined around 75 guests for a catered dinner, it was a wonderful evening! Family came from some distance away to help us celebrate and then our weekend has been filled with family gatherings at our home.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

\n

The happy couple! What a thrill it has been to call Shrelene my bride for 50 years! Jim Haverstock, (with me below), got the prize for the furthest to drive to the celebration. and my Son Scott and grandson Ben flew up for St Augustine Florida!<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

My best man was my brother Homer!<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

Scott and Catherine preparing for the cake cutting!<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"
\n

Left to right, front table, Terri Fortney, Homer Fortney, Randy Scott, Joyce Scott Debi Miller, Eddie Miller and Sherelene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n

\"\"
\n

Sherelene visitng with Jim & Susan Begley, dear friends!
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n
\"\"
of
What a great celebration of a 50 year journey, I’m truly a blessed man!!!!!<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n

Our grandchildren’s table!<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

\n

Sherelene with Leo and Sandy Miller, our Harlan friends for well over 50 years! Thanks to Danny and Debbie Howard for coming too!!!!<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

\n

Blessings, <\/p>\n

\n

\n

the pilgrim<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

\n

A very special thanks to Rhonda, Catherine and Rhonda’s mother, Helen for all the work they put in helping us get this done!!! Though I don’t have a picture of him, because he was always behind the camera, a very special thanks to Butch Houseman for taking all these images for us, you’re a champ Butch!!!!! I can’t thank you enough!!!!<\/p>\n

\n

More images coming after a short Honeymoon \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The happy couple! What a thrill it has been to call Shrelene my bride for 50 years! Jim Haverstock, (with me below), got the prize for the furthest to drive to the celebration. and my Son Scott and grandson Ben flew up for St Augustine Florida! My best man was my brother Homer! Scott and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20894"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20913,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894\/revisions\/20913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}