Thursday marked the 65th wedding anniversary for 83-year-old Shirley and 87-year-old Jack Ward, who live at Bay Crest Village Everygreen Court.
The pair first met at Bandon High School in the 1930's and got married in Eugene in 1942.
"I would say that the happiness that we've had over the years has been very gratifying," says Jack Ward. "I think all the accomplishments we've made over these 65 years is even more gratifying."
They say, among their many accomplishments include raising two girls, Sharon and Peggy, owning a theatre in Bandon together and supporting each other's careers.
Dorothy and Murray's love story began shortly after Dorothy immigrated from Europe in the early 1930s. As children, the two lived across the street from each other in Worcester, Massachusetts. After getting married, the couple lived in Worcester, where they raised their family. Murray was a baker and Dorothy worked in a children's clothing store. In their wildest dreams, they could not have foreseen that in 2007, they would be celebrating Dorothy's 91st birthday, Murray's 90th birthday, and their 70th wedding anniversary at their home on Cape Cod. Planning Dorothy and Murray's anniversary party, their family was faced with a unique dilemma. What can you get a couple who has been married for 70 years?
Lets think about what 70 years of marriage would be like? In your short marriage of 10,20,30 or even 50 year,s what have you gone through? Please read about this couple here
Ray and Mary Mott's home in rural Champaign County is small and simple and surrounded on all sides by silent, open fields.
The couple have lived here for 51 of their 67 years together.Largely housebound now because of Ray's health issues, they live, by their own admission, a quiet life. Mary, 88, looks after Ray, 87, monitoring his oxygen tank and taking care of his daily needs.
On Oct. 26 the couple quietly celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary. Ray gave Mary 18 bright pink roses. Cards poured in from family, friends and well wishers, 67 cards to be exact, one for each year of marriage.
The two met on a double date in 1938 and, according to Mary, it was far from love at first sight. Attending an outdoor movie with another couple, accommodations were somewhat cramped.
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Ralph and June Dafoe didn't want their family to make a big fuss out of their wedding anniversary today.
"They went out of their way for our 25th, 40th, 50th and 60th anniversaries and I kept saying, 'Nothing doing this year, you've done enough,' but they didn't listen," June said.
"You just can't ignore a 65th anniversary," granddaughter Kara Nolan said. "It's just too significant, especially considering how well grandma and grandpa get along."
TWO special couples whose lives have been world’s apart celebrated 60 years of marriage yesterday.
As the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed a Royal walkabout in Malta, Joe and Isobel Lightfoot enjoyed a more low-key get-together with family and friends at Parkfield Residential Care home in Carlisle.
It may not have had the glamour of the Queen’s celebrations, which also included a service in Westminster Abbey the day before, but the party at the London Road nursing home was every bit as important for the happy couple.
Their smiles said it all: a lifetime of togetherness, shared with the people who matter most in their lives. Read more on the two couples here
THE bride borrowed her dress, the groom wore the suit he was demobbed in and friends and family chipped in to help pay for the reception. With war-time rationing still in place, guests dined on steak pies or stew and the happy couple can't remember if there was a cake.
It was far removed from the glitzy wedding at Westminster Abbey that same day of Princess Elizabeth to young naval lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. But 60 years on today and Adam and Teresa Lockerbie still recall their low-key wedding in Blackburn, West Lothian, as the happiest day of their lives.
The pair, who are both 83, are sprightly and smartly dressed, each in newly-shone shoes. Teresa has just lifted a fine home-baked apple tart from the oven and Adam is relaxing on a well-earned day off from his job as a school crossing agent. They remember watching the Queen's celebrations on TV back in November 20, 1947 - but did not let it detract from their own big day, which began with a ceremony at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in the centre of Blackburn.
Recalls Adam: "We got married at 9am and had a wedding breakfast and then in the evening we had a reception at the Miners' Welfare Club. I think we saw some of the Queen's ceremony on the television in the afternoon." Teresa adds: "Our wedding was just as nice. It did the job anyway."
Royal family and friends gathered in Westminster Abbey on Monday to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's diamond wedding anniversary, in the church where they wed 60 years ago.
After the thanksgiving service the couple, whose marriage is the longest in English royal history, were set to fly to Malta for the anniversary itself Tuesday, to relive their newlywed days on the Mediterranean island.
A 2,000-strong congregation including Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former premiers Margaret Thatcher and John Major were invited to the service, alongside religious and military chiefs and 30 royal family members.
"A glittering celebration for the Queen," headlined the Daily Telegraph over a front-page picture of the 81-year-old monarch. The service was to be broadcast live on television from 1130 GMT.
The queen's grandson Prince William, second in line to the throne, was to give a reading. In contrast to the anti-German sentiment of 1947, some of Prince Philip's German relations have been invited this time.
Following the ceremony, the couple were to unveil a new panoramic panel in Parliament Square over the road, showing key local landmarks.
But the most personal part of the anniversary programme will be their Malta trip -- an idea of Prince Philip's. The former queen of Malta and her husband will be guests of the republic's government.
Queen Elizabeth is known to cherish the time they spent on Malta as a young couple, out of Britain and out of the spotlight in the years before she inherited the throne aged 25 in 1952.
"Malta is a special place for the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh," a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace, the queen's official residence, told AFP.
The young princess married the Royal Navy Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, a prince of Greece and Denmark five years her senior and a distant cousin, on November 20, 1947.
A wedding anniversary is an anniversary which falls on the month and day a particular wedding took place, and which recurs every other subsequent year, except for those who were married on February 29th. Married persons who regard the day of their marriage as important may mark the occasion in some special way.
The 25th (silver) or 30th anniversaries are often marked within the immediate family, (eg with a special family holiday), since they tend to coincide with the end of the child-rearing phase of family life.
Broader groups in society, especially the extended families (including any grand children), may help to celebrate later events, such as the 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries.
EXETER and Devon couples who are celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary (60 years) in the same year as Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip, will be taking part in celebrations to mark the occasion.
The Lord Mayor of Exeter, Cllr Hazel Slack, is hosting a special afternoon tea at Guildhall on Tuesday, November 20.
Joining her will be 40 couples from Exeter and Devon who share the same anniversary year as the Queen and Prince Philip. The Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, Anna Robinson, will also be attending representing the Queen.
A COUPLE first united by the misspelling of a name are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary.
Brenda Kislingbury was secretary of the Winterbourne Young Conservatives Group when she misspelled member Brian's name incorrectly in 1952.
Picking Brenda up on the error, Brian soon asked her out on a date and the couple married five years later on November 9, 1957. Fifty on Brian, aged 79, and Brenda, aged 80, are still together and living in the same home in Filton Road, Hambrook, they bought just after their wedding day.
Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss G. Rockwell celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary Aug. 18, 2007, at Pelican Landing Convention Center.
Mr. Rockwell took the former Peggy Tillman of Pascagoula as his bride on Aug. 15, 1954, at Jackson Avenue Baptist Church in Pascagoula.
Barbara Henderson Poole of Gautier, who served as the maid of honor at the original wedding party, and the bride's brother, George D. Tillman Jr. of Moss Point, who gave away the bride, were present to celebrate the couples 53 years.
Hosting the event were the couple's four daughters and their husbands: Deborah and David Cooper of Gautier, Roxane and Andy Jenne of Ocean Springs, Marla and Chuck Purdy of Pascagoula and Jennifer and John Fox of Ocean Springs.
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After 60 years of marriage, Mary Ella Ty singer Barefoot and Charles Barefoot figured they had received enough presents and collectibles to fill their Arcadia community home.
So when it came time for the 79 th to celebrate their 60 th wedding anniversary in late October, they did not want anyone to bring gifts for them to their party. Instead, the couple asked their guests to bring gifts for others who are really in need.
The result was a truck bed full — 36 boxes — of food for Crisis Ministry of Davidson County’s food pantry.
“We did not need anything,” Mrs. Barefoot said.
“At this age, if you don’t already have it, you don’t need it,” Mr. Barefoot chimed in.
On the cusp of their 75 wedding anniversary, Arthur and Luella say their marriage wasn't easy - but it was definitely worth it.
The Dodge County couple's diamond anniversary is Dec. 5 but they plan to celebrate the event on Dec. 2 the only way they can imagine - surrounded by a family that includes 14 children, 54 grandchildren, 86 great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren.
"It'll be a hectic weekend," said Arthur, 93. "Saturday all the family will be there."
Arthur and Luella may not have envisioned such a large clan when they met at the age of 16 at a cousin's wedding in 1929.
"I had a crush on him," admitted Luella.
Though Luella and Arthur crossed paths numerous times that evening as they helped wait tables, it would be another 1 1/2 years before their first date. They had met again at another cousin's wedding, and Arthur found himself so enamored of Luella that he asked her out the following week.
"We went to a dance and he doesn't even dance," Luella said. "We just started going out together after that."
The lovebirds got engaged soon thereafter, tying the knot on Dec. 5, 1931.
"She asked me," Arthur joked about their engagement.
An East Texas couple is celebrating a very special wedding anniversary. FDR was president when they met and through prosperity and hard times, they stayed together. Saturday, J.W. and Mable Best celebrated 70 years of marriage.
"I met her in a gymnasium one night," said J.W. "I was going with the girl that introduced me to her, and I just dropped that other girl right
Lance Armstrong, state Rep. Patrick Rose, D-Dripping Springs, state Sen. Jane Nelson, R- and other supporters of Proposition 15 are planning to gather tonight at the Hotel to await news on whether the $3 billion cancer research proposal passes.
But there’s one notable supporter of the proposal who won’t be there: Gov. Rick Perry.
A sentimental husband in Denton, Greater Manchester, has celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by eating a 50 year old can of chicken.
Les Lailey had been saving the tin of Buxted Whole Cooked Chicken in Jelly from a buffet he and his bride Beryl received as a wedding gift in 1956. They kept hold of the tin through numerous house moves, explaining to the BBC: “I always said 'on my 50th wedding anniversary I'm going to eat that chicken' so I did.”
He added: “It was all right. But I don't like chicken.”The couple ate everything else in their wedding hamper, but with post-war rationing still in effect, a whole canned chicken was a rare delicacy. Les reported: “It tasted just like ordinary chicken. A little bit salty but that was my fault for not cooking it like I should have done.” Beryl was not too impressed with her husband's romantic gesture: “If it was a diamond ring or something You have got to finish reading this one. I now that they had a reason to save this 50 year old food but would you eat it?
An anniversary is a unique celebration, a moment that symbolizes the timelessness of love. As each year passes it recalls the happiness of the past, while creating wonderful new memories for the future.
Before the middle-to-late 1930s, not all wedding anniversaries had a material representing the celebration year. Only the 1st, and milestone anniversaries such as, 10th, 20th, 25th, 50th and 70th had a material gift suggestion. Further materials for the traditional list were added by an American jewelery association. Why there was a long gap between 50th and 70th and for many years, and why there was no material representing 65th anniversary is not known. Over the years more materials were added and the list up-dated and modernized by various American and British commercial companies.
Jack and Nellie Furber, both aircraft mechanics during World War II, will have been married for seven decades on Tuesday.
Jack, 90 and Nellie, 93, are natives of England and were married in Southampton in 1937. Jack was an airplane mechanic during World War II and Nellie did her part as well, working on fighter jets. The petite woman's job was to crawl up inside the tail section of the aircraft and do the wiring.
The couple moved to the United States in 1963 and to Garden Grove in 1966 where they bought their home for $10,400. Jack found a job as a mechanic with Beckman Instruments in Fullerton.
The couple has a daughter, Maureen Berwanger, two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
What do you think is the reason for their long marriage?
THE SOUNDS of Scotland were brought to one Petersfield couple celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary.
John and Marge Kitchener, of Siward House, Borough Road, called the tune on Saturday as they toasted the landmark to the music of a Scottish piper.
Marge said: “We used to go to Scotland a lot but we can’t get there so much these days and we thought we would like to have a bagpiper with us on our anniversary. It was lovely – he played really beautifully.”
65 years of marriage most of us will be lucky to get half of that. This would be another one of those couples to wright a book for younger couples to live by.
