Benny T. and Pat J. Rosell, Baldwin City, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an autumn vacation in Arkansas.
The couple were married Oct. 24, 1959, at the Nazarene Church in Cherokee, Okla.
Benny and Pat lived most of their married life in Hoxie. Benny was a high school teacher for 30 years and served as pastor of the Hoxie Christian Church for more than 24 years. He currently serves as the pastor of the Lone Star Church of the Brethren south of Lawrence, and enjoys bass fishing and substitute teaching.
Pat was a homemaker. She then worked as a preschool teacher in Hoxie and later in home-health care in Salina, after the couple moved there in 2000. She enjoys oil and watercolor painting and has displayed her artwork in various shows in Kansas.
The couple moved to Baldwin City in 2003 to be closer to their family, a son, Michael Rosell and wife Katy, Lee’s Summit, Mo.; a daughter, Yolanda Hargett and husband Cole, Olathe; and five grandchildren.