DEXTER — Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Bauter, 525 W. Kirby St., will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with a family picnic Aug. 9 at Grass Point State Park pavilion, Clayton.

Mr. Bauter, son of the late Ernest and Sarah Reeves Bauter, and Catherine E. Wiley, daughter of the late Raymond P. and Mary McManaman Wiley, were married Aug. 14, 1948, at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Watertown, with the Rev. Benoit C. Dostie officiating.

Honor attendants were the late Joseph Kelly, Watertown, and Patricia Wiley MacRae, Victor, sister of the bride.

Mr. Bauter graduated from Watertown High School in January 1944. He enlisted in the Navy and served in the Pacific for two years.

He graduated in 1950 from St. Lawrence University, Canton, with a bachelor's degree in business administration. After graduating he was recalled to active duty during the Korean War, serving for two years.

Following his discharge, Mr. Bauter worked for Dow Chemical Co., Rochester, in the veterinary and later in the pharmaceutical sales divisions. He retired as senior sales account specialist in 1983. He was then a sales and marking consultant for Boots Pharmaceuticals, retiring in 1988.

Mr. Bauter was very active with Boy Scouts in the former Jefferson-Lewis Council, was an avid fly-fisherman and duck and songbird wood carver.

Mrs. Bauter graduated from Immaculate Heart Academy, Watertown, in 1945. She worked at Prudential Insurance Co. and Agricultural Insurance Co. prior to her marriage. She then worked in the cafeteria at Watertown High School before moving to Rochester.

She enjoyed selling her stuffed-animal specialties at craft shows throughout the north country. She now enjoys reading and knitting.

The couple has three sons, Richard D., Missouri, Michael J., Clayton, and Kevin F., Keeseville; four daughters, Patricia Ferguson, Clayton, Mary Anne Mallett, Natural Bridge, Diane Pockett, Rochester, and Virginia Woolf, Watertown. They have 16 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

A son, David M., died in 1980.