Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary

[Kadie]

Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary

POSTED: 7:27 am EDT June 15, 2004

LENOX, Iowa -- A couple in the southwest Iowa town of Lenox have been married longer than many people live.

Dr. E. R. Pennebaker and Bessie Pennebaker celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary Monday. They were married June 14, 1924. He is 101 and she's 96.

Dr. Pennebaker was a chiropractor for 68 years, working out of the family's home. She helped with bookkeeping, but was mainly a homemaker.

The couple moved to Lenox Care Center a year ago after Bessie had a heart attack.
Her husband, who lost his hearing, now communicates through writing.


http://www.ktvu.com/family/3419432/detail.html

[Frodo]

1. Married at 16?

My, how things change.

Except maybe in WV.


Congratulations to the happy couple. What a great example!

[SlingBlade]

2. A Very Good Story

One that show’s how lasting love can be, These two I’m sure have had their up’s and down’s over the span of 80 years yet remained together and partners to each other.
A very good example to those jerks on the Right who loudly complain about the sanctity of marriage on Monday while on Friday they are serving their spouse with divorce papers while she lay in her hospital bed.

It renews faith in the human condition somehow.

[demnan]

3. Maybe they're having a contest

to see which will live the longest! Neither of them want to give up. My grandfather had something like that going with his pet cat. He lived to be 98 and the cat lived to be 21.

[Spinzonner]

4. Who won ?

[trotsky]

5. The formula I've read

is that the first year of a cat's life is equivalent to 20 human years, and then every year thereafter is equal to 4 human years.

So a 21-yr-old cat would be:

1x20 + 20x4 = 100

Cat won. :)