Thank you all so much for entering our “Celebration of Love” photo contest! Congratulations to Donald and Ruth Sanor and Bob and Faith Creswell, for your inspiration.
Fast facts:
♦The average length of our entrant’s marriages was 46 years.
♦Eight couples were married 60 years or longer.
♦The longest married couple was Don and Ruth Sanor, who’ve been married 70 years.
♦The newest couple was Jim and Janice Frank, married in 2012
♦According to the 2009 U.S. Census, 35% of couples reach their 25th anniversary; only 6% reach their 50th.
Kirk and Jeanie Warfield
Myrta and Larry Litman
Jim and Betsy Rust
Howard and Rose Hall
Jan and Wally Siegel
Bill and Sue Kariher
Clyde and Nettie Watson
Don and Ruth Sanor
Gail and Barbara Phillis
Bill and Mary Lou Wise
Bill and Rebecca Bliley
Don and Miriam Miller
Faith and Bob Creswell
Margaret and Charles Addicott
Bill and Helen Mills
This couple was married on April 25, 1959. They met at a Deerville, Ohio, Fireman’s Fair in 1954. When they started dating, Marilyn was still milking cows on a farm. Today they have two boys and four grandchildren.
