Richard and Margie Schwartz of Marion will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday.
Richard Schwartz and Margie Bernhardt were married Aug. 9, 1959, at Evangelical United Brethren Church, Marion.
Richard joined the U.S. Marines in 1958 and retired in 1989 as a colonel. The family lived at 10 different military installations including in Hawaii, South Korea, and Florida.
Currently they live at Marion County Lake.
The couple celebrated their anniversary in June by spending a week with family at a beach house in Nag’s Head, N.C. Attending were their son, Thane, and friend Judy Steinborn of Marion; daughter Peri and husband Ray Griffith; and grandsons, Richard, Ben, and Daniel Griffith, all of Chesapeake, Va.