Doris and Malcolm Edmunson of Bend will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Sept. 17 with an open house from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at their family home in Bend.

The couple were married September 14, 1952, at the Old Presbyterian Church in Redmond, OR.

Mr. Edmunson is a retired county assessor. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1957 and is a fourth generation Oregon born.

His ancestors traveled over the Oregon Trail to settle in Oregon.

Mrs. Edmunson moved with her family to Oregon at age 14, from South Dakota. She graduated from Redmond High School in 1952 and worked at the Pentagon her first year of marriage when Malcom was assigned to Fort Belvoir in Washington, DC.

They were married when Mr. Edmunson was home on leave from serving in Korean, then they left the next day for his next assignment in Washington, D.C., Fort Belvoir for one year before returning to Oregon.

After Mr. Edmunson retired from the LA County Assessor’s office, the couple moved back home to Bend 43 years ago.