HOME FULL OF LOVE BUILT 50-YEAR MARRIAGE / ROSEMARY AND ROGER ENFIELD CELEBRATE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY AS FAMILY SHOWS ITS AFFECTION

Oct 1, 1997

Author: Kim Eckart; The News Tribune

There was an ice rink on Lake Steilacoom in 1946. The only one around. Roger Enfield, a young veteran working part time at Pierce County Hospital, drove his date there from Tacoma.

They married Sept. 27, 1947, built a house in then-rural Lakewood and watched a community - and a family - build around them. A dozen children, 19 grandchildren and one great-grandchild later, the Enfield's still live in the house Roger built, around the corner from (a now rebuilt) Park Lodge Elementary School.

"This house is a home for everybody in my family," said 22-year-old Doug Enfield, a Fort Bragg, N.C., soldier who grew up three blocks from his grandparents and took a leave to celebrate their 50th anniversary with them last weekend.