1 Municipal Park Dr. — Ligonier Township Anniversary Community
James and Julia Ambrose of Ligonier Township have just celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary, a milestone the couple marked together after a lifetime that began at the altar of the First Methodist Church of Ligonier in 1951. Now both in their 90s, the Ambroses have spent decades building a family that has grown far beyond the two sons and two daughters they raised.
Their Diamond Anniversary was the subject of a recent feature by CBS News Pittsburgh, which reported that James and Julia Ambrose of Ligonier Township celebrated their Diamond Anniversary together. The outlet’s reporting detailed just how far the family tree has spread since that wedding day more than seven decades ago.
A Family That Keeps Growing
Together, they raised two sons and two daughters, and today, the Ambrose family includes 12 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and now, two great-great-grandchildren, according to the same CBS News Pittsburgh report. It’s a sprawling legacy for a couple who started out as newlyweds in a small-town church decades before most of those descendants were even born…