{"id":204,"date":"2010-06-08T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T09:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/06\/a-couple-celebrates-over-70-years-of-marriage.html"},"modified":"2010-06-08T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T09:54:19","slug":"a-couple-celebrates-over-70-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/06\/a-couple-celebrates-over-70-years-of-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"A Couple Celebrates Over 70 Years of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1936, Ellen and Walker Robinette got married.&nbsp; She was 17 and he was 20.<\/p>\n<p>The couple then went on a honeymoon to San Francisco and San Jose&nbsp;that cost&nbsp;under $35.&nbsp;&nbsp;While honeymoons now cost more, the couple&#8217;s love have also&nbsp;increased.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ellen and Walker are still married over 70 years later, and they&nbsp;recently&nbsp;celebrated their anniversary&nbsp;by renewing marriage vows&nbsp;in front of a&nbsp;group of family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ellen now lives in a nursing home in Citrus Heights, California, Walker visits her every day.&nbsp; His advice for a long and happy marriage? &#8220;<span>Be sure they love each other,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The rest of it will take care of itself.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news10.net\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=82977&amp;catid=2&amp;hpt=Sbin\">News10.net<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Read more on Ellen and Walker Robinette:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news10.net\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=82977&amp;catid=2&amp;hpt=Sbin\">Couple Renews Vows After Seven Decades of Marriage<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1936, Ellen and Walker Robinette got married.&nbsp; She was 17 and he was 20. The couple then went on a honeymoon to San Francisco and San Jose&nbsp;that cost&nbsp;under $35.&nbsp;&nbsp;While honeymoons now cost more, the couple&#8217;s love have also&nbsp;increased.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ellen and Walker are still married over 70 years later, and they&nbsp;recently&nbsp;celebrated their anniversary&nbsp;by renewing marriage vows&nbsp;in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-daily-smile","category-love"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Couple Celebrates Over 70 Years of Marriage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/06\/a-couple-celebrates-over-70-years-of-marriage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Couple Celebrates Over 70 Years of Marriage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 1936, Ellen and Walker Robinette got married.&nbsp; She was 17 and he was 20. 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