Bill and Marian Dirks of Duluth will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at 2 p.m. today with an open house at 430 East Oxford Street in Duluth.
Bill and the former Marian Johnson were married March 22, 1959, in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.
Their children are Michael and Linda Dirks of Lakeville, Minn.; Jonathan and Rhonda Troe of Owatonna, Minn.; and Philip and Melissa Dirks of Ely. They have 15 grandchildren.
Bill retired from his teaching position at Northwestern High School in Maple, Wis. Marian retired from her position as a medical technologist at Northwest Hospital in Minneapolis.
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