Love Spans the Decades

Celebrating love on Valentine's Day with Herchel and Gladys Sheets, who have been married 62 years.

Depending on whom you ask, the story is slightly different. He says he noticed her at a school event that she hardly recalls. She says they were paired at a banquet, and that she asked him out on the first date. "Is that the way it went?" Gladys Sheets said, turning to her husband, Herchel. "Probably," he said. Within three weeks, they were engaged. For more than a year, they kept the entire thing a secret from their parents, up until six months before the May 28, 1949 wedding. "She makes up her head quickly," Herchel Sheets said about the speedy proposal and acceptance. "Well," Gladys joked, "I knew I had time to back out." How did the proposal go exactly? Well, that's another thing the couple doesn't get bothered with all the details. …

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