Milestones

  Morris and Hilda Hall of Shallotte celebrate their 60th anniversary Feb. 4, 2016, at Lover’s Leap in Virginia. The Halls, both originally from Virginia, have two daughters and four granddaughters, and can be seen every Monday and Wednesday morning at Hardees in Supply “dancing up and down the aisles to country music.”

    A 2013 West Brunswick High School graduate and Supply native is serving in the Navy as part of a crew working aboard one of the world’s most advanced ballistic missile submarines, USS Maryland (SSBN 738).

Fireman Kevin Holden is a fire control technician serving aboard the Kings Bay-based boat, one of 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. A Navy fire control technician is responsible for controlling outgoing weapons, tracking surface and air contacts, launching defensive weapons and verifying the safely of the boat.

Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Rachael Menius and Dan Burgess of Boston.

The bride-elect is the daughter of David and Donna Menius of Ocean Isle Beach. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania, she is a pediatric palliative care nurse practitioner at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital.

 Everald and Orine Rankin of Shallotte celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Dec. 12. The couple first met in Bridgeport, Conn., at a mutual friend’s get-together “and it was love at first sight.” They were married two weeks later, Dec. 12, 1965. Today they have four children (twins Georgina and George, Shirley and Rosa), eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.