<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Some people would consider this to be a sin. Not me. NOT EVER!</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of the <i>Quad-City Times</i> (Davenport, Iowa) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://qctimes.com/news/local/wedding-vows-open-new-chapter-in--year-relationship/article_e350e94e-4eb4-551b-ad6a-d84092f7ec3f.html">http://qctimes.com/news/local/wedding-vows-open-new-chapter-in--year-relationship/article_e350e94e-4eb4-551b-ad6a-d84092f7ec3f.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 46px; font-size: 40px; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">2 Q-C women marry after 72 years together</h1><div><img src="cid:AEA9B79F-75D4-46B7-B3CA-648ABA51E138" alt="image1.jpeg" id="AEA9B79F-75D4-46B7-B3CA-648ABA51E138"></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/QuadCityTimes_070115.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/QuadCityTimes_070115.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vivian Boyack and Alice "Nonie" Dubes say it is never too late for people to write new chapters in their lives.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boyack, 91, and Dubes, 90, began a new chapter in their 72-year relationship Saturday when they exchanged wedding vows at First Christian Church, Davenport.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Surrounded by family and a small group of close friends, the two held hands as the Rev. Linda Hunsaker told the couple that, “This is a celebration of something that should have happened a very long time ago.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The two met in Yale, Iowa, where they grew up, and moved to Davenport in 1947.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boyack was a longtime teacher in Davenport, directing the lives of children at Lincoln and Grant elementary schools.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I always wanted to be a teacher,” Boyack said Saturday after the ceremony. “My plan at an early age was to teach in the school where I was then going, and my teacher would move on to another school.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dubes worked for the Times and Democrat for 13 years in payroll. “I signed the paychecks for everybody, including Bill Wundram,” she said. After leaving the news business, she worked for Alter Corp. for 25 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Over the years, the two have traveled to all 50 states, all the provinces of Canada, and to England twice.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We’ve had a good time,” Dubes said. Boyack added it takes a lot of love and work to keep a relationship going for 72 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jerry Yeast, 73, of Davenport, has known the couple since he was an 18-year-old landscaper working in their yard.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’ve known these two women all my life, and I can tell you, they are special,” Yeast said. “This is a very special day for all of us.”</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>After forty-two years of marriage (42 of the most wonderful years of my life), HOW DARE somebody deny ANY two people of this experience . . . simply because they read it in a book someplace.</div><div><br></div><div>I am 63. My spouse is whatever age she is. We are 42.</div><div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>