Harold,100 and Edna Owings, 99 have been married for 80 years
Posted on 11/26/2011 8:42:27 PM PST by Altariel
Some people are married for only 72 days. Some people are married for only a few weeks. Some people are married for a few years. However, according to a news report, on Thanksgiving day a Los Angeles couple celebrated their 80th anniversary.
Harold Owings, 100, and his wife wife, 99, got married on Thanksgiving Day in 1931.
"We've had a wonderful life," says Edna Owings. "We've had a storybook life, really."
So what is the secret to their happy marriage?
Harold Owings says:
"I never remember having and argument with her and it last overnight. Never once, because I always believed that I had a right to my opinion, and she had a right to hers. And if we couldn't settle it that way we just let it go and eventually it settled itself."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
You've got me totally puzzled. What do you mean?
“wife wife”
Took me a couple readings to see the doubled word.
You know, now that I think about it, Maxwell Smart, 86, was also married to his wife, 99. But their series didn’t last nearly as long.
They actually look quite... young for 100 and 99. I would have guessed 80’s.
I had a very sweet couple as patients who were in their late 80’s at the time. They met at the 1933 World’s Fair IIRC. He would tease her when she stepped on the office scale by pressing his cane down on it making her seem “heavier”. And he’d giggle like a kid. They just enjoyed each other’s company and it showed.
They became boyfriend and girlfriend in the fifth grade so it’s more like 90 years. Not having previous relationships reduces complications too.
very sweet.
No hippies, socialists, libs or any other hate the world types.
It was my mom that said the best way to recognize how someone is going to treat you later on is to see how she treats the waitress/waiter or those around you in general.
Thought you’d appreciate this story, my darling :-)
wife wife
`Took me a couple readings__________’
Didn’t see it the first time, either.
Reminds me my Scottish grandmother was a proof-reader for Norcross Greeting Cards (Lexington Ave., I believe, in Manhattan, NY) in the 1950’s to 1973.
(Norcross was similar to Hallmark - probably rivals - - -).
Guess I don’t have the gene!
She once said, in short explanation, that she caught things like a sentence ending in ‘the,’ and the next sentence beginning with ‘the.’
Wonder how she did it!
“.. his wife wife...”
Does the article mention her name, or was she introduced as “The Wife” ?
Rolling On Floor Laughing.
Thank you, my Love! Imagine what the Owings have experienced together since their “candy bar days”. What an inspirational story; and what a lovely couple they are! :-*
Getting married in 1931 and enduring what they did for the first 25 years of their marriage, everything else since then was probably just a walk in the park.......
Getting married in 1931 and enduring what they did for the first 25 years of their marriage, everything else since then was probably just a walk in the park.......
Getting married in 1931 and enduring what they did for the first 25 years of their marriage, everything else since then was probably just a walk in the park.......
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Harold,100 and Edna Owings, 99 have been married for 80 years
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