Notons return to honeymoon home

Ron and Mary Lou Noton spent their 50th wedding anniversary in the house they spent their first honeymoon.

After getting married June 22, 1963 in Park Forest, Ill., they traveled to Encampment to spend time in the historic Willis House built in 1908.

The couple can still remember their first experience in the house, which was home to Mary’s grandfather at the time.

“My grandfather had this old refrigerator and he said ‘it kind of smells,’ ” she said. “It turned out everything in the refrigerator was rotten.”

Mary’s grandfather had accidentally unplugged the refrigerator. The couple, during the...