Sowards

BY Staff Reports
Sunday, November 18, 2012
11/18/12 at 3:27 AM


Al R.D. Sowards and Ruth Jorgensen Sowards of Broken Arrow celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary in November, with a trip to France and Spain and a Mediterranean cruise.

The couple met on a blind date while they were both attending the University of Oklahoma. They married Nov. 23, 1957, at Pennsylvania Avenue Christian Church in Oklahoma City. They have three children: Elizabeth Price and husband Vance of Vienna, Va.; David Sowards and wife Debra Hamilton Sowards of Tulsa; and Jennifer Jones and husband Douglas of Plano, Texas. They have six grandchildren: Madeleine Price and Alexandrea Price, both of Vienna, Va.; Jackson Hamilton Sowards and Lukas Robert Sowards of Tulsa; and Kyle Jones and Natalie Ruth Jones, both of Plano.

Al Sowards was vicepresident of Fenix and Scisson, Inc., and since 1989 has been a geological engineering consultant. Ruth Sowards is the managing trustee of Sisk Charitable Trust.
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