Dean and Ann Gesme celebrate their 70th Wedding Anniversary

Dean and Ann Gesme celebrate

their 70th Wedding Anniversary

Dean and Ann Gesme were married July 22, 1950 at Vermont Lutheran Church in Black Earth, WI. The ceremony took place that

Saturday evening at 8 p.m. and was attended by 150 people. The reception was held

afterward on the family farm.

Dean and Ann have lived in Cedar Rapids for 62 years and have resided at Cottage Grove Place the past 11 years. They have three children,

Dr. Dean Gesme Jr. and his wife Laura, Karen Brunssen and her husband Kim, and Martha Nielsen and her husband Peter. They have five grandchildren, Greta Wicker and her husband Colin, Kerstin Balfour and her husband Don,

Erika Gesme, Karl Brunssen and Emma Nielsen; and five great-grandchildren, Chase and Parker Balfour and Soren, Berit and Silje Wicker.

They will celebrate privately. Cards are

welcome.