SIKESTON -- Family and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gilliland are invited to attend a golden wedding celebration in their honor from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 4 at the North Acres Baptist Church in Sikeston.
Wiley Eugene Gilliland and Donna Marie Gossett were married Sept. 4, 1954, at the Vanduser Church of God. J. Marshall Page performed the ceremony. The late Mary Beth Gossett attended her sister as made of honor, and Elmer Gilliland Jr. of Jefferson City served his brother as best man.
The couple has one daughter and son-in-law, Janice and Walter Deason III of Little Rock, Ark.; and one son and daughter-in-law, Steve and Tara Baker Gilliland of Oklahoma City, Okla.; and five grandchildren, Ashley Deason Foote and her husband, Michael Foote, Kody Gilliland and Korbin Gilliland, all of Oklahoma City and Elizabeth Deason and Rachael Deason of Little Rock.
Gilliland retired from the U.S. Post Office in Sikeston in 1996, and Mrs. Gilliland retired from DeWitt Co. in 2002. They have resided in Sikeston for 50 years and are members of the North Acres General Baptist Church.
The family requests that gifts be omitted.