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Amazinng: Couple Remarry – After 48 Years
A US couple are to remarry – nearly half a century after they were divorced.
Roland Davis and Lena Henderson, both 85, got hitched as teenagers and divorced 20 years and four children later.
Their youngest daughter, Renita Chadwick, herself a grandmother, said: “We are all so ridiculously excited. We’re like little children again.
“It’s every child’s dream, every child who has ever been in a family where divorce has occurred, that your parents would come back together.”
The couple met as teenagers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and were married by a justice of the peace.
This time around, a church wedding is planned, in Buffalo, New York state, followed by a reception at a local restaurant.
“I’m just happy that we’re here,” said Mr Davis, who recently moved to Buffalo from Colorado following the death of his second wife in January. .
Mr Davis proposed to Mrs Henderson, who is also widowed after re-marrying, over the phone around Easter and she accepted, even though they hadn’t seen each other since a family funeral in 1996.
Before that, the two hadn’t been face-to-face since splitting up in 1964, though they had stayed in touch and kept up with each other’s lives through the children.
Their oldest daughter, Johnnie Mae Funderbirk, had been urging her father to return to New York since his wife’s death.
“I had always kind of had that in mind, mostly because of the children,” he said. “You never forget someone that you cared for at one time or another.”
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Posted by Editor
on August 6, 2012. Filed under LIFE & STYLE, STYLE.
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joseph
August 6, 2012 at 2:27 pm
No one can separate what God has put together.
oxmos
August 6, 2012 at 3:05 pm
zeguluuu!!!!!!!! you even appear happy,thats when you WILL die now with BPH
Kachenche
August 6, 2012 at 3:53 pm
How did their partners die?
JM
August 6, 2012 at 8:02 pm
mmm…loneliness led to this
Mr negativity
August 7, 2012 at 12:28 am
Im vry hpy 4u gys…seriously!
NEMUNTU
August 8, 2012 at 5:15 pm
awe kwena ili lysashi lyawama sana. I will encourage my parents to do the same after all both of them never remaried and have been divorced for 26 years. I have looked in there eyes, they seem to still love each other especially the last time we had a wedding in the family. I am printing this article so that I go and show them. May it will encourage them do the same. I have dificulties supporting them seperately.
Mwine mushi
August 8, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Ili lyashi telya kunyantilila….
Am happy 4 these pipo.Its a lesson to the youths.Wat is yoz wil owez b yoz……
Lisa
August 9, 2012 at 9:11 am
very interesting story, wish divorced couples could do the same.
Essy
August 15, 2012 at 10:14 am
Indeed what God put together – no man can put assunder. I join in the family’s celebration !
Saviour j luputa
August 15, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Good for those old folks wish you all the best,can’t happen to me with this world full diseasese can just endup reaching the grave early.not for me
cash
August 15, 2012 at 3:35 pm
horny bustards
Loaded
August 16, 2012 at 3:49 pm
This story is very true, I have my mother’s uncle who dovorced 40 years ago. And now there are back together.
What God has put together let no man put assunder. So husband snatchers watch out that one day that man will go back to his first wife.
jokolo jokolo ubuzya choolwe . Imbolela ilalya . As much as it sounds Good. 48 yrs too much. And wat are these people going to marry for?
August 17, 2012 at 1:27 am
check it out