Life-Long Love Stories
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2 min readSome of our greatest romances are told in the obituaries.
Who doesn't love telling and retelling the tale of how they met their sweetheart? A good love story can be passed down through the generations, revisited with kids and grandkids any time we're feeling nostalgic. And a great love story is worth sharing with the world.
Many of those great love stories find their way to the obituary page. In the past year, hundreds of timeless tales of romance were told in obituaries shared on Legacy. Here are a few of our favorites.
Zenaida Macadaan's obituary tells of the flowers, telegrams, and cassette tapes she and her husband exchanged while he was deployed to faraway places. But their love story began long before her days as a Navy wife: "Her legacy will be her love story with her D.O., 'Dearest One,' soul-mate and loving husband, Carlos. Her earliest memories of them were playing hide and go seek as young kids in the streets of the neighborhood they shared in San Augustin. They both were lucky to end up together for Carlos would say Zeny was out of his league. Little did he know that she shared the same sentiment for him."
World War II love stories abound in our culture, and some of the sweetest ones are immortalized in obituaries, likeRudy Viol's: "As his 1945 high school Class Mirror lists his entry 'Let's Find Some Women!', he did just that in the south of France, when a dark-haired French beauty, Alice, caught Rudy's US Navy sailor eye, & their love-story was timeless. Whether dancing to 'In The Mood', running thru sprinklers together, or on trips to Europe, Florida, Canada, Hawaii, they demonstrated to friends/ family that they were, 'toi et moi—amor toujours'. Rudy dances with Alice's angel now, once again, 'toi et moi'.
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