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A couple celebrates over 50 years of marriage and shared adventures

The Sea Ranch couple, married 53 years, reflects on raising three children and now enjoying seven grandchildren during their visit.

FRANCISCO MARTINEZ / THE ARKSea Ranch residents Beverly and Randall Hawks, who have been married for 53 years, wait for their hotel room to be ready at the Waters Edge Hotel in downtown Tiburon on Oct. 7.
Francisco Martinez
By FRANCISCO MARTINEZ · 1 min read

Randall and Beverly Hawks, both 74 and wearing matching light blue jackets, sit outside the Waters Edge Hotel in downtown Tiburon on Oct. 7, reading The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle’s Sporting Green section as they wait for their hotel room.

The Sea Ranch residents say they’ve long enjoyed visiting Tiburon and plan to spend several nights in town before returning to the unincorporated community on the northern Sonoma County coast bordering Mendocino County, where they’ve lived for roughly seven years.

“It’s just a very low-key, convenient, not spread out all over the place kind of place where you can come and go across the street to get dinner and come back,” Beverly says of Tiburon.

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A version of this story appeared in the Oct. 15, 2025, print edition of The Ark. See something wrong? Request a correction.
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