A couple from Missouri, 103-year-old and 102-year-old Bertha Kowalcyk had celebrated their 80th anniversary on the first day of the next year. The couple were at the Cape Albeon Lakeside Retirement Living in Valley Park, along with their friends and family.
The old couple are both from New Hampshire, and met at the University of New Hampshire, as they attended to a dance.
“They were both going to University of New Hampshire and there was a dance at the dorm,” the son of the couple, David had shared.
“And the way they got couples to dance is you had a lottery and you picked a number. Well, both my father and my mother picked number 23. And, so, that’s how they ended up together.”
When it was two months after the dance they attended, they had their first date, and they are still together. The couple engaged in October of 1943. But Andrew was serving under the Navy, so the couple had to wait for their wedding.
“He called me on the phone, and he said, ‘I changed my mind; I want to get married now,’” Bertha shared.
“So I told him the one day I like, and I think is significant is New Year’s Day, and he said okay.”
“My father had to take leave, and he arrived a couple hours before the wedding took place,” David added, “And he had gotten leave from his officer, and he said he had to be back on Jan. 1. but he said, ‘Well, I’m getting married.’ And he said, ‘Well, we’ll make it Jan. 3.’”
And the couple had their wedding on the 1st of the January, in 1944. Together they had six children, and in total, the couple has 31 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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