ANNIVERSARY

A 1948 dance program indicating that Mr. Dean Low, a Dayton High School senior should dance with Miss Beverly Roberts, a Waitsburg High School sophomore, was the instrument responsible for introducing the couple, who recently celebrated their 60th anniversary.

This first dance initiated a 5-year courtship, the last three years mostly by mail while Dean was drafted into the army and Beverly at- tended Cottey Jr. College in Missouri, spent eight months recovering from hip surgery, and then attended Kinman Business College in Spokane.

The two became engaged in the hallway of St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, MN, while Beverly convalesced from her surgery, and wed on April 11, 1953, at the First Methodist Church in Walla Walla.

The Lows moved to Se- attle in the fall of 1953, where Dean attended the University of Washington, earning his bachelor's degree in business and working summers at Boeing, where he continued to work for the next 33 years.

Beverly worked as a sub- stitute secretary for the Federal Way School District, and, later, at the Weyerhauser National Headquarters in Federal Way. She also dem- onstrated microwave ovens during their introduction to the public.

The couple has four children: Steven, Kathryn, Bruce and Darren. When the young- est graduated college they took up the full-time RV lifestyle for the next 15 years, visiting every contiguous state in the lower 48, as well as several Canadian prov- inces.

The couple settled in Walla Walla in 2004, and continued their travels, visiting Eng- land, Scotland, Wales, Italy, the Baltic States, Germany, France, Australia, New Zea- land, Iceland and Greenland.

Sixty-five years after that first dance, Beverly and Dean celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a trip to China.

The Lows have two grand- children and one great-grandchild, six step-grandchildren and six step-great-grandchildren. A family celebration is planned in July.