Thursday, 22 August 2019

Nine Nine-patch Islands


Francis and Rosemary Klontz will celebrate their sixty-eighth wedding anniversary this month. When people ask them how they’ve stayed together for so long, they say the answer is simple: coordinated outfits. Rosemary’s mom bought them matching T-shirts when they were high school sweethearts, and they’ve been wearing clothes that match ever since. Every. Single. Day. Francis says he just lets Rosemary decide what they’ll wear: “She just lays it out for me, and I don’t have to worry about a thing!” Before they retired, Francis and Rosemary both served as pastors at the First Presbyterian church in Laidlaw, Oregon. They explain that sharing their faith has helped them stay together all these years.  “You put Jesus first, others second, and you last. That’s the way you spell JOY,” Rosemary says.

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