Nassau County anniversaries

75thFRANCES AND CARMINE D'AVANZO of North Valley Stream were wed Oct. 25, 1936. They celebrated with a trip to the Poconos with an in-house dinner. Carmine is a retired butcher from the A&P supermarket. Frances and Carmine, pictured above with some of their family, have two children, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

61stCATHERINE AND ANGELO GIANNINI of Seaford celebrated on Oct. 22 at a family dinner with their three children, their spouses, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Angelo is a Korean War veteran and a retired drag racer. Catherine is a retired school bus driver. They enjoy being with their family.

60thELEANOR AND BILL MEDDIS of Hicksville were wed Oct. 7, 1951. They celebrated with family in Florida. Bill is a Navy Korean War veteran and a retired deputy inspector in the Nassau County Police Department. Eleanor is a homemaker. They have three children and three grandchildren.

30thROSA ANNA AND TOM KNAG of Long Beach were wed Aug. 23, 1981. They celebrated at Grotto Bay Resort in Bermuda, where they had honeymooned. Tom works for Sears as a home service technician, and Rosa Anna works as a secretary at Long Beach High School. They have two children.

25thFELICIA AND ELLIS SCHNEBERG of Plainview celebrated at Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on Sept. 10. Their two children served as witnesses as they renewed vows with "Elvis Presley" officiating, above. The family continued the celebration at the revolving restaurant Top of the World at the Stratosphere. Ellis is retired, and Felicia is director of education and training for the Nassau County Office of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency and adjunct professor at Hofstra University.

25thANNE-MARIE AND JIM BRZEZINSKI of Levittown were wed Oct. 5, 1986. They celebrated with a dinner cruise around Manhattan. Jim is an IT specialist for United States Citizenship Immigration Services, and Anne-Marie is a part-time artist at Newsday. They have two children.