GENTRY -- A Gentry couple reached a milestone Friday that few ever reach, their 73rd wedding anniversary.
Loren and Doris Davis of Gentry were married in Sayer, Okla., on Dec. 12, 1941. Though they had planned to marry, the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7 moved things up.
"I knew it would just be a matter of time and I would be off serving my country," Loren said. So the couple married sooner than expected, but their marriage has outlasted most.
As it turns out, Loren didn't get sent overseas during the war; he served at home, in McAllen, Texas, as a part of a unit which trained pilots for the war.
"I was on the ground crew and serviced the planes," Loren said.
Loren was discharged on Dec. 7, 1945, and returned to Yale, Okla., where the couple farmed for 22 years. After that, Loren and Doris lived in Joplin, Mo., from 1967 to 1979. The couple then returned to Gentry, to the farm on which he was born and raised.
Loren and Doris have five children: John Davis, Karen Rees, Mark and his wife Arlene Davis of Gentry, Tim Davis and Ann Murray.
Loren, 96, and Doris, 93, were honored Friday at the Flint Creek Apartments, where they now live.
According to Loren, there's never been a cross word between him and his wife -- at least nothing comes to memory.
"He's a wonderful husband," Doris said of Loren.
Community on 12/17/2014