Atkinson’s Celebrate 50th Anniversary

Fifty years of loving, caring and sharing… 

Meredith, Daniel, Evan, Joel and Kyle Atkinson, along with 13 grandchildren, are excited to announce the Golden Wedding Anniversary of their parents and grandparents, Eldon “Earl” Atkinson, Jr. and Roxanne (Alonzo) Atkinson. 

Earl and Roxanne were married, Saturday, August 16, 1969 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Baton Rouge. They celebrated their anniversary Saturday with their children and grandchildren.  

Earl graduated from Glen Oaks High in 1966 and continued his education at LSU graduating with his Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering in 1972.  He is a senior project manager with an engineering firm in Baton Rouge. “We know he is looking forward to one day retiring and spending more time with mom and his grandchildren!”

Roxanne graduated from Istrouma High in 1966 and continued her education at LSU. She graduated in August 1969 with her teaching degree in English and married Earl one week later, holding true to a promise she made her parents to finish college before marrying. 

Roxanne is president of the Central Community School Board and continues to help keep Central “healthy and fit” with her company, Aerobics by Roxanne!

In their “spare” time, they enjoy spending time together on their front porch swing, watching the wild life that surrounds their home.  They enjoy traveling, working in the yard, visiting friends and seeing new places.  The thing that brings them the most joy and happiness is spending time with their family and especially their grandchildren.  

If you ask them how they’ve made it work for 50 years, they’d tell you it’s because they were raised in Godly, Christian homes. Their parents, LJ and Theresa (Lemoine) Alonzo and E.E. Atkinson, Sr. and Marie (Whitehead) Atkinson, taught them to love unconditionally, communicate with each other, and never go to bed angry.  As their children, we can tell you, we were raised with these same Godly principles taught to them by our grandparents and they are now teaching them to their grandchildren.

Corinthians 13:4-8 is just one of our parents’ favorite Bible verses. 

They’ve lived their lives by this teaching of love… Love is patient and kind; Love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends… 

“Happy 50th Anniversary, Mom and Dad! Thank you for all you’ve done and continue to do for us!”  

“We love you BIG AS THE WORLD and Uncle Linus!”