By Staff
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Vaughan Purvis celebrated their 50th anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004, with a special service of worship and renewing of their vows at Lauderdale
Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Robert M. Moore officiating. A reception at the home of Hilda Farr followed the ceremony. The couple were married by the Rev. Fred Z. Browne in 1954 at the same church. They have three children, Sabrina Williams and her husband, Rick, Suzette Landrum and her husband, Steve, and Vaughan Purvis Jr.; nine grandchildren and one great-grandson. Mrs. Purvis is the former Sue A. Carlton.