Lawton and Bertha Mae Waldrep will celebrate their 71st Wedding Anniversary on June 1.
Lawton Waldrep was in the Navy and served in World War II. He went to Sasebo, Japan and Shanghai, China. He traveled on a ship called the “Henry A. Wiley” and returned home on the “McCook.” After returning home, he worked at Cullman Products for 31 years.
Bertha Mae Lawton has been a homemaker and raised chickens for more than 50 years. In her younger days, she made 1,300 leather purses. She loves quilting, cooking, canning and building cabinets and bird houses. Bertha Mae and her son Michael built her very own psaltery (similar to a dulcimer) that she plays.
The Waldreps live in the Flat Rock community and are faithful, hardworking members of Flat Rock United Methodist Church. The church was built in the 1920s, and in the 1980s the church members added Sunday School rooms and a fellowship hall.
Lawton and Bertha Mae have four children: Horace Waldrep, Carolyn and Douglas Hunt, Michael and Jayne Waldrep and Robert and Donna Waldrep. They have five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and a host of friends and relatives that would like to wish them a happy anniversary!
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