A drive-by parade of friends and family helped Jim and Ernestine Green celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary at the Bedina Church of Christ on Saturday, July 18, just three days after the actual anniversary.
Jim Green, known as Jimmy, and the former Ernestine Rawlins, known as Ernie, met during her junior year at Visalia High School in Visalia, California.
Jimmy had just turned 20, but Ernie was still enrolled in high school when they married on July 15, 1950. They joined many other couples in marrying that year as the nation faced the Korean conflict.
Both underage, Jimmy and Ernie needed their parents’ ...