EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — A love story eight decades in the making. Evansville natives Marvin and Beverly Sue celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary at the Holiday Village retirement home.
“80 years is actually the minimum requirement to be on Wikipedia’s list of longest marriages in the history of the world,” said Jill Pryor, activities assistant at Holiday Village.
Their story started in 1945 when one of Marvin Sue’s buddies was talking to a girl he met one night. Sue told his buddy if he didn’t ask her out, then he will. And that’s exactly what he did. That girl turned out to be Beverly Sue…