Andrew, 103, and Bertha “Bunny”, 102, Kowalcyk celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary aIongside their family and friends at Cape Albeon Lakeside Retirement Living in Valley Park.

The coupIe, who were both born in New Hampshire, met at a dance at the University of New Hampshire.
“They were both going to University of New Hampshire and there was a dance at the dorm,” David Kowalczyk, the couple’s son, told KTVI.

And the way they got couples to dance is you had a lottery and you picked a number. Well, both my father and my mother picked number 23. And, so, that’s how they ended up together.

One month later the two went on a date, and the rest is history. The two got engaged in October 1943 and agreed to wait until after World W ar II – Andrew was in the Navy – to get married. But their Iove for one another altered their plans.

He called me on the phone, and he said, I changed my mind; I want to get married now, Bertha said. “So I told him the one day I Iike, and I think is significant is…