Staff Reports
Godrey "Mac" and Catharine"Cathy" Bishop celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Feb. 6, 2009.
Mac Bishop was born in Stover, Mo., and came to the Sacramento area at a young age. He moved to Richmond in the 1940s where he worked as a ship fitter in the Kaiser Shipyards.
Cathy Bishop was born in Topeka, Kan., and moved to Richmond in the early 1940s. She was a beautician in Topeka, but during World War II she took a job as a welder in the Kaiser Shipyard.
Mac and Cathy met as workers in the shipyard and married Feb. 6, 1944. They spent almost 60 years in the Richmond/El Sobrante area before moving to Minden in 2004.
Mac worked in sheet metal and heating for almost 40 years and Cathy was active in community services including being a volunteer driver for Meals on Wheels in Richmond for 29 years.
The couple's children, Neil Bishop and Janet Franklin, live in northern Nevada.
