This is the story of a man named Brady - Ernest H. Brady and his wife, Carolyn.
Ernest, 92, and Carolyn, 87, celebrated their 71st anniversary last Thursday. What did the happy couple want for their anniversary? Cake? Balloons?
How about a trip to Eufaula, to the same house they were married in in 1939?
“My dad told me he wanted one thing,” said Pat, one of the Brady's five daughters. “To go back to Eufaula and find the house they were married in.”
Ernest and Carolyn live in Cedar Springs, Ga. just south of Blakely near the Georgia-Pacific paper mill where Ernest worked for 23 years.
In 1939, Carolyn lived in Henry County with her family.
“Ernie's folks lived next door to mine,” Carolyn recalled. “He had just come home from Arizona and I guess he was looking for a wife,” she said with an affectionate smile at her husband.
The couple went first to Georgetown to be wed, but discovered the probate judge was on vacation at the time. Then Ernest's friend referred the two to a justice of the peace, Hattie Dunaway, who lived in a small house on Orange Avenue.
Read more on this story Tuesday in the midweek Tribune.
Email
Facebook
Google
Twitter
Favorites
More
Advertisement