Longest married U.S. couple celebrate 81st anniversary

... the day that the Betars eloped. The couple fled what Reuters called their "close-knit Syrian neighborhood in Bridgeport, Conn.," after Ann's father announced plans to marry off his then 17-year-old daughter to a man 20 years her senior. John said he ...



via Bridgeport Newswire http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/longest-married_us_couple_celebrates_81st_anniversary.html