Mr. and Mrs. L.V. Rudder

CALHOUN FALLS, SC - Mr. and Mrs. L.V. Rudder of Calhoun Falls celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on September 24, 2008. The couple were married on September 24, 1938 in Abbeville, SC. Frances is the former Frances Cobb. She is the daughter of the late John and Annie Sanders Cobb of Calhoun Falls. L.V. is the son of the late Luther and Lexie Thompson Rudder of Calhoun Falls. They have seven children, L.V. Rudder, Jr. and wife Elaine and Margaret "Peachie" Johnson and husband Vernon, all of Calhoun Falls, Steve Rudder and wife Marilyn of Abbeville, Shirley Smith and husband JR of Oglethorpe County, GA, Lexie Blackmon and husband, the late Howard Blackmon of Elberton, GA, Mary Staples and husband, the late Gene Staples of Greenwood, and the late Alice Boggs and her husband Wendel of Calhoun Falls. They have 18 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Rudder are both retired from Burlington Mills and are members of Northside Baptist Church in Calhoun Falls. The attribute their long lasting marriage to trusting in God.