There's a name for what the Hendersons will celebrate in a few days: oak wedding. This is what it is called in German when two people have been married to each other for 80 years. On December 22, 1939, Charlotte and John Henderson from Texas said yes.
The Guinness Book of Records recognized the couple as the longest living couple in the world - and the age of the two is just as impressive: she is 105 years old, he even 106. How do you manage to live so long, so long to live together?
They paid attention to balanced meals and drank little alcohol, the two now told the "Washington Post". Accordingly, they no longer hear as well as they used to, but are otherwise in excellent shape. The couple remained childless, as John Henderson laughed in the interview, saying, "Some people say that's the real reason we live so long!"
By the way, the couple have been living together as a couple for 85 years, as they told the newspaper: In a zoology course, 21-year-old John and Charlotte, a year younger, met at the University of Austin in 1934. "I thought he was just a nice guy," she said now, "and I paid no attention to his look over my shoulder."
A little later, they were a couple - one that supposedly barely quarreled. Today the Henderson live in an old people's home in the west of the Texas capital Austin. The pictures of the couple, which the retirement home has now published on Facebook, show: The Hendersons still seem to be satisfied even after 80 years of marriage.