85th birthday celebrated

Ruth and A.W. Smith

Ruth Sheffield Smith celebrated her 85th birthday Friday, August 10, 2007 with her daughters, Karen Kimbrel, Helen Turner, and Marilyn Sowell, at Red Lobster in Dothan, AL.

Pictured above are Ruth and A. W. on their 68th wedding anniversary which was May 30. A beautiful bouquet of red roses was placed in their church, Springfield Missionary Baptist Church, by their children in honor of their parents' anniversary. The Smiths received a letter of congratulations on this momentous occasion from President and Mrs. George W. Bush.