A Kingston couple is celebrating a huge milestone this year as they round the home plate for their 70th wedding anniversary. “Love is very important but baseball is pretty good too,” said Doug Haig, reciting Yogi Berra, who was a professional baseball catcher. These are words to live by for Don and his wife Betty,…
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Only Come to the Sunday Family Dinner if You Did This First. What Was It?
Couple From Tennessee Celebrate 70 Years of Marriage Tommy Lee Marshall, Sr. and his wife Harriet from Jackson, Tennessee just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. They were married in 1950 after dating for about a year. Tommy, who was then working at Firestone, first saw Harriet while biking to work. They connected through mutual friends…
A Lifetime of Love: USC Sweethearts Celebrate 70 Years in Style Despite Pandemic
For 39 joyful minutes, a parade of family members, neighbors, friends and well-wishers streamed by as Barbara and Bill Birnie watched from their Balboa Island cottage. In cars and golf carts, on bikes or by foot, the revelers sang and danced, threw confetti and blew kisses to the beaming couple. At final count, nearly 100…
Couple of 70 Years Does Not Do This
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always…
Couple married for 70 years share their secrets of sticking together in hardship
Thomas Wood and wife Rosina from Oakwood, Derby, talked candidly about their 70 years together … Now, reflecting on 70 years of marriage, they agree that the secret to their lasting companionship has been to never to go to bed on an argument. Although Mrs Wood (formerly Miss Brown) joked that it really does feel…
Celebrating 70 Years of Marriage with Billy and Peggy Prater
The two were classmates for their primary years, but when the United States became involved in World War II, Peggy’s blacksmith father, Jack Shackleford, was summoned to the shipyards in Washington state, with his family in tow. The Shacklefords returned to eastern New Mexico after the war, and Peggy came back to Dora School at…
Couple celebrates 70 years of marriage. This is their secret
Mrs Jordan worked as a nurse at Gloucester Royal Hospital and this is where Mr Jordan met his future bride through a nursing friend she worked with. The couple were married in Midsomer Norton Church on 11 February 1950. This is the church where Mrs Jordan and her parents went every Sunday when she was…
Platinum wedding anniversary for couple who never argue
When asked about the secret to their long-lasting marriage, Mrs Sinclair said: “We don’t argue at all. All we did was raise our family and look after them. “We just carried on our lives like normal and live happily with a nice and simple life. “There is no room in the house to fit all…
Oldest Living Couple Married an Incredible 80 Years
It all started in a zoology class in 1934. Students were seated alphabetically in the tiered lecture hall, so John Henderson, 21, sat directly behind Charlotte Curtis. When he looked down, he liked the shy 20-year-old he saw in front of him. And Charlotte? “I thought he was just a fine fella, and I didn’t…
Couple married for 70 years die side by side just minutes apart
A DOTING couple who did everything together for 70 years have died just 20 minutes apart in the same American hospice. The passing of Les and Freda Austin, both 90, side-by side in neighboring beds was “about as romantic as you could get”, said son Michael. The couple, from Jackson in Michigan, became sweethearts at…