JUBILEES : FARM BOY, CITY GIRL RENEW VOWS.

The golden wedding anniversary of Kenneth and Dolores Cook was celebrated 50 years to the day of their wedding with a renewal of their vows at St. Genevieve's Church in Panorama City. The ceremony was followed by a reception for 164 family members and friends at the Odyssey restaurant in Granada Hills.

Kenneth was a farm boy from Silverton, Ore., when a mutual friend introduced him to Dolores, a city girl from Seattle, who was attending Merrill Hurst Catholic Girls School in Oswego, Ore. The couple married after a ``whirlwind courtship,'' Kenneth says.

While working as a General Motors parts salesman in Seattle, Kenneth came home one day and read a newspaper article about the closing of a children's orphanage and an appeal from the Catholic Children's Bureau asking for volunteer foster parents to take the children. One was a little boy with cerebral palsy. Dolores said she knew they should take that little boy. That was just the beginning. Over a 10-year period, the couple, who in addition to adopting three babies, were foster parents to 22 children ranging in age from a few weeks to 15 years.

The Cooks moved to Panorama City 37 years ago, where Kenneth owned the Panorama Cinder Box Pipe Shop, followed by years in the import and export of wholesale coffee until he retired at 65.

Dolores remained home with their children - Daniela Stiles of Seattle; Kenneth J. Cook of Palmdale and Pamela Gagliano of Panorama City. She gave piano lessons and has been organist at St. Genevieve's for 36 years.

The couple are the grandparents of six and great-grandparents of two.

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