Couples Combined Ages Equal 205 Years Old
11/09/2008 05:39
DEVOTED Ralph and
Phyllis Tarrant cuddle up as they celebrate
becoming Britain’s oldest married couple
yesterday – with a combined age of
205.Ralph, 105, and his wife claimed the title when she turned 100.
They will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary along with Phyllis’s birthday at a party later this month.
The Tarrants still live in their own home, with Phyllis cooking and cleaning while Ralph does the shopping.
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She said the secret of their long lives was “getting on with each other, a good diet, exercise, avoiding cigarettes and a tot of whisky each night”.
The Sheffield couple – who have daughters Brenda, 71, and Christine, 61, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren – met when Phyllis was 14.
Their romance began four years later and they married on July 8, 1933.
Phyllis, who worked as a typist at a steelworks, keeps busy with a church lunch club and loves opera, playing the piano and Sheffield Wednesday.
She said: “I suppose I should be counted as old, but I don’t feel it. I’m just so pleased to have retained my health – and my marbles.”
Former insurance worker Ralph – an RAF corporal during the war – said: “We like to get out and about.”
SINC SAYS:
That’s quite an achievement and a lot to be proud of in today’s divorce prone world.
