Seventy-two summers ago I met Ann.

I remember the first time I met her.  It was the summer of 1948 and the location was St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Carolina Beach, North Carolina.  She was an extraordinarily beautiful young woman, but it was only a reflection of the beauty within. I do not know how I managed to win her heart, but somehow I did, and three and a half years later we were married in that same church.  We had 63 years together as husband and wife.

A Very Young

Annie Laura McGuire

Ann in Junior High

A Young Couple in Love

1949

At a Semi-Formal Dance

Summer 1951

 

Off to College

September 1951

Posing for the College Yearbook

(in her gym clothes)

October 1951

Wedding Day

December 16, 1951

A Photo Taken for Her Husband

Far Away in Korea

February 1954

Second Honeymoon

(together again)

October 1954

Flowers

1955

The Young Family

1956

April 1958

  

Beloved Sons

1970

Au Revoir, My Love

April 17, 2015

 

She walks in beauty in those heavenly fields that God so lovingly prepared for His children.