Ruedgers Honored on 50th
Wedding Anniversary
Carson City, MI paper, Nov
1938
Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Ruedger celebrated their fiftieth year of marriage at the farm home, four and one half miles north of Carson City Sunday, November 20, 1938, with their ten children, other relatives and friends.
At
noon the family enjoyed a bounteous dinner, with three grandsons and three
granddaughters serving the table. A
large four-tier wedding cake and a smaller two-tier cake were served later in
the afternoon with fruit salad. The
rooms were decorated with yellow and white chrysanthemums and with the numerous
gifts the host and hostess received. It
will be a day long remembered.
Mr.
& Mrs. Ruedger were married at the home of her parents, Mr. & Mrs.
Eliab Foster, in Roberts, IL on November 20, 1888. The couple started housekeeping on a farm near Roberts where they
lived ten years. During the next five
years the family moved twice, living in Cissna Park, IL, four years and in
Kokomo, IN, one year. It was then
decided they would move to Michigan and for the past 35 years have lived on the
same farm north of Carson City.
Mr.
Ruedger has always been active in farm work, and has attained an enviable
reputation as a good farmer. He also
served as a supervisor for Crystal Township eleven years, while Mrs. Ruedger
will always be remembered as a devoted mother and housewife.
Among
those present were Dr. a& Mrs. F.M. Blome and daughter Louise of Kenney,
IL, Miss Leda Foster of Roberts, IL, sister of Mrs. Ruedger; Mr. & Mrs.
John Ruedger and family; Mr. & Mrs. Bilias Ruedger, MR. & Mrs. Roy
Lance and family, Mr. & Mrs. Clark Ruedger, Mr. & Mrs. Mark Ruedger and
family, Wallace Ruedger, Mr. & Mrs. Harold Duerr and family, Mr. & Mrs.
Joe Ruedger and son, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Ruedger, Mrs. Cm M. Dike, Mr. &
Mrs. Ernest Burk, son and daughter, Robert Ward, and Erma Ruedger of Belding,
Bradford Sigsby of Crystal, Miss Ira Lance of Owosso, and Frederick Blome who
has been helping his grandfather with farm work this past summer.