Everyone of us wants to settle down, get married, have some kids and spend our whole life with someone we really love. That’s always been the ultimate goal of an individual longing for belonging. But you know, sometimes, it’s inevitable for the vows to be broken and fade all away; leaving someone halfway.
However, there are still some who would do everything to keep their marriage and working out for the ‘happy ending’, that whatever may happens, no matter how hard the trials are and no matter how long will it take, love keeps them alive and will always keep them alive.
These married couples are so far have the longest marriage ever recorded and they’re still alive and soundly loving each other so much until now!
1. Herman and Bertie Solomon, Great Neck, NY. 81 years, 21 days. Here they are celebrating their 80th anniversary.
2. Zhang and Xu Dongying, Shanghai, China. 83 years, 237 days. Their combined age is 209 and they are Shanghai’s only centenarian couple.
3. Norman and Norma Burmah, Marksville, LA. 83 years, 150 days. They hold the record for the longest marriage in the United States.
4. Ivan and Anka Batalić, Vrlika, Croatia. 83 years, 145 days.
5. Lonnie and Jessie Mabrey, Cookeville, TN. 82 years, 318 days. They eloped in August 1931 and have been together ever since.
6. Richard and Eloise Masters, Kingsley, PA. 81 years, 179 days.
7. Harold and Edna Owings, Burbank, CA. 82 years, 213 days. He’s 101 and she’s 100. And they celebrated their 81st anniversary in Vegas.
8. Karam and Kartari Chand, Bradford, England. 88 years, 196 days. He’s 107 and she’s 100. They have eight children, 27 grandchildren, and 23 great-grandchildren. Their secret? “We just get on.”
9. John and Anna Betar, Bridgeport, CT. 81 years 212 days.”I fell for her right away,” John says.
10. Roy T. Edgmon and Vola Gracie Edgmon, Lowell, AR. 81 years, 27 days. They have 3 children, 10 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren, 43 great-great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-great-grandchildren!
