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December 11, 2011

Shortell: 50 years

Press-Republican

PERU — John and Shirley Shortell of Peru recently celebrated their diamond anniversary with a party at the VFW in Peru, hosted by their daughters.

John Joseph Shortell and Shirley Marion Summers were married Dec. 19, 1951, in St. John's Church in Rensselear.

At that time John was in the U.S. Army and soon after shipped to Korea. Upon his honorable discharge, they settled in Peru, where John's parents had a farm.

The couple has two daughters: Shirley and her husband, Steve Arnold of Plattsburgh, and lrene and her husband, Marc Youngmann of Plattsburgh.

They have two grandchildren, Sarah Agnew of Washington state and Jeremy Youngmann of Peru; and four great-grandchildren, Logan Youngmann, Cohen Youngmann, Ali Agnew and Garret Agnew.

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