Posted on 02/27/2015 8:50:56 AM PST by Kartographer
A California couple, married 67 years, died hours apart while holding hands this month, their daughter said on Thursday.
Floyd Hartwig, 90, and wife Violet, 89, died on Feb. 11 in their home in Easton, California, outside Fresno, their family said.
The couple had known each other since they were children and married in 1947 while Floyd was on leave from the Navy, going on to settle in a ranch in Easton.
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Wow! And Brian Williams was there to hold their hands too!
My parents are at 63 years of marriage and counting. Perfect marriage? No. Perfectly committed to each other? Yes!
Thank you!
Then Williams could send back a photo from Heaven . . . well, at least from the Pearly Gates (don’t think they’ll let him in).
Wonderful story, thanks. My husband and I have been married 57 years but I am not expecting another 10 .
This is a truly lovely story. Thank you for posting it. What scares me terribly is that it reminds me how much the current culture deviates from or affirmatively (and loudly) rejects all of the values that animated the lives of these people: commitment to a traditional family; hard work; love of country. I fear for my children’s generation, and reading about people like this only sharpens the picture I have of the danger our children face.
Sending this to wife and daughter, it will make their day
What a lovely America they experienced.
That’s what I was thinking. These two are like a metaphor for a California that has passed away.
People today expect the perfect marriage and then bail because they don’t have the commitment.
Good movie. Good message... along the lines of “whatsoever is good, whatsoever is lovely... believe on these things.”
To another post here. We are closer to our 50th anniversary than I ever thought we would be at many times. It has not always been easy. From a generation of people who saw more divorce than commitment a young girl, the wife of one of our son’s friends, asked my wife and I how you stay married so long. My reply, “You don’t quit.”
I don’t want us to be alone when we get old more than necessary, I don’t want to be with someone who has not shared all our ups and downs, I don’t want our children or grand children to have to decide where they are going for Christmas or Thanksgiving or whatever. I don’t want us to be buried with someone else thought we won’t know the difference then I will know it now. I want someone to find us together just like I have found the last three generations of my parents and grand parents. They handed down the tradition of commitment. You don’t quit.
Awww, what a cute couple.
It’s wonderful that they got to grow old together.
Thank you, what a nice thing to say. ; )
“I don’t want us to be alone when we get old more than necessary, I don’t want to be with someone who has not shared all our ups and downs, I don’t want our children or grand children to have to decide where they are going for Christmas or Thanksgiving or whatever. I don’t want us to be buried with someone else thought we won’t know the difference then”
You’ve touched on several reasons for a long marriage and how to get there. Thank you for sharing this.
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