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Archive for December 20th, 2006

Wartime sweethearts reunited after 50 years

WHEN the young English WAAF officer met her Czech lieutenant during the Second World War it was love at first sight.
They married, had a son and believed they were destined to be together forever.
But politics and prison ripped Jean and Antony Spacek’s lives apart.
They did not see each other again properly for half a century [...]

Fred, 102, and Gwen, 101, still in love

Fred Landis has a Valentine’s Day ritual. Sometime, somewhere, he’ll lean over to his wife, Gwen, and say, “I love you.” They say he’s been doing that on Valentine’s Days since 1928, when they were married.

In October, Fred, 102, and Gwen, 101, celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary, and they are not far shy of a [...]

Still in love after 76 years

Old, but still with a zest for life, that’s Hendrik Pieterse, 105, and his wife, Gertie, 96, very much in love after 76 years of marriage.

Ouma Gertie, as she is known to all and sundry, shares the recipe for a long life.

“We’ve had a long life, because we honoured and respected our parents, but today’s [...]

Time to fly

As a young woman, Mary Ann Tachco dreamed of being a flight attendant and seeing the world. Then, as she puts it, life happened - marriage, children - practical considerations. But last year, her dream finally came true, as she took a job as a flight attendant for a company contracted with the U.S military [...]

There is Life After Death

Life after death has been chronicled in a new book from Revell (a division of Baker Publishing Group) entitled “90 Minutes in Heaven” (ISBN 0-8007-5949-4; $12.99). Immediately after being killed in a car accident nearly fifteen years ago, Don Piper went to heaven. EMTs on the scene determined he had been killed instantly after a [...]