Congrats to the couple. :)

link (http://www.click2houston.com/family/11453846/detail.html)

Couple Celebrates 80 Years Of Marriage
Marriage Started During Coolidge Presidency

Posted: 8:08 am CDT March 30, 2007

Lubec, Maine -- Kathleen and Waldo Tarbell have a big anniversary to celebrate Saturday -- their 80th.

The Maine couple married in 1927, during Calvin Coolidge's presidency.

They will celebrate at an anniversary party at the Oceanview Nursing Home, where they share a large room.

The Tarbells said marriage has changed them. Kathleen said she's been a Democrat her entire adult life. But Waldo, originally a Republican, has turned Democrat.

He added that she "converted" him.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

How awesome is that? :) I'm really curious as to how old they were when they got married, tho, since the article doesn't say.

My grandparents married in 1941, just a little over two months before Pearl Harbor - so they've been married for 65 1/2 years now. My grandma was 17 (almost 18) and my grandpa was 26 (almost 27) when they wed... so now my grandpa is in his early 90s. I'll be really surprised if they make it to 70 years, considering he'll be 96 by then (if he's still alive). :lol:

Nowadays - no 17 year old female would get married to a 26 year old male. Heh.

Aww that's so cute. I love looking at the anniversaries in the paper and seeing who's been married the longest. It's fun looking at their wedding pictures and pictures of them now.

Awww!!!!! That's sweet!!! :)

I give them another year before they split up.

;)

Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Tarbell!! What a sweet couple. :heart: :love:

Aw, I love hearing stories like that! Gives me faith in this world :)

That's so sweet. My husband's parents were married for 59 years. My parents almost made it to 50 years. My mother died in March of 2002. They would have been married 50 years two months later, that May...then my father died later that month.

Wow... very inspiring and amazing!!! :)