"It maybe the first married deacons in that Catholic church but there have been married deacons in the Church in America for some time."
That is correct. We have several in our parish here.
They've had deacons (and married, too) for almost 35 years
Dick Johe, the father of a high school classmate or mine, was a member of the 1st class of Permanent Deacons for the Roman Catholic Church in the United States appointed in 1971 and was assigned to Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Randallstown, MD