Olan and Carolyn Beach of Alvaton will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006. The couple will commemorate the milestone at a reception in their honor at the Holiday Inn Express in Fayetteville. Their children and spouses, Greg and Tracey Beach, Senoia, Scott Beach, Alvaton, Bruce and Kim York, St Louis, Mo., Grady and Kaye Sikes, Peachtree City, and their grandchildren and great-grand child, will host the event.

Mr. and Mrs. Beach were married Feb. 18, 1956, at Bethany Baptist Church in Marigold, Miss. At the time the couple lived in Wichita Falls, Texas, where Mr. Beach was stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base.

Mrs. Beach was a homemaker to their four children. Mr. Beach retired from Delta Air Lines after 30 years of service.

The Beaches are active members of Alvaton Baptist Church in Alvaton.

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