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• Love Story: Her comic books won him over

  May 2, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page V5 It wasn’t her eyes or her smile that captured his heart – it was her comic books. Sixty years ago, Laurie and Sheri Zapf met in the third grade in … 3

• Love Story: He was smitten before first date

  April 11, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page S5 For some it takes just one look – for others one date. But Don Thomas didn’t even need that. “Before I ever went out with her I knew she was …

• Love Story: Marriage marked by adventure

  March 28, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page S1 It was the car she noticed first. While enjoying a soda with her mother at Halpin’s Drug Store in Spokane Valley, Maggie Moore watched a sleek, black 1947 Buick Super …

• Love Story: Three brides for three brothers

  March 7, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page V5 The Sale brothers know about marriage. The three men and their wives have a combined total of 185 years of marital experience between them. Here from youngest to oldest, the … 6

• Love Story: Sharpshooting city girl right at home on farm

  February 21, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page S5 For more than 60 years, Ralph and Geraldine “Gerry” Reifenberger have made their home in Fairfield amid the rolling hills of the Palouse. “I married a city girl and transplanted …

• Love Story: Blind date really opened couple’s eyes

  February 7, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page V1 When Bill and Irene Zimmer met on a blind date, they already had a lot in common. Bill, a senior at Gonzaga University at the time, had grown up on …

• Love Story: Adventures through military formed strong bond, family

  December 27, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 When you hear about a boy from the Colville Indian Reservation who meets a girl from Kansas City, in Japan of all places, you know you’re in for an interesting … 1

• Ring confusion adds twist to courtship

  December 6, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Her white nurse’s uniform caught his eye. “Those sexy white shoes!” he recalled, grinning. Then he noticed her slender legs and shapely ankles. “I could marry those legs,” he thought. …

• It took a few decades, but classmates meet, hit it off

  November 22, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 They walked down the same halls at West Valley High School – had some of the same teachers, knew the same people, and graduated together in the class of 1969. … 2

• Love story: Couple has eye on big picture

  November 1, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Maya Murphy, 28, believes in setting goals. She recently completed her first triathlon and started an investment firm with her husband, Dave Murphy. Her most treasured long-term goal also involves …

• Sock from a sassy girl really got his attention

  October 13, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V4 Sixty-two years ago, a sock in the shoulder got the attention of Dick Nolt, and the girl who gave him the playful punch has kept his attention ever since. Dick, …

• Love Story: Sock from a sassy girl really got his attention

  October 11, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Sixty-two years ago, a sock in the shoulder got the attention of Dick Nolt, and the girl who gave him the playful punch has kept his attention ever since. Dick, …

• First meeting at ages 12, 14 led to marriage

  September 13, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Steve Leaf has never forgotten his first sight of Dolores “Doe”, who later became his wife. She’d been hit by a car and was confined to a hospital bed with …

• First date had calamity, but couple clock 75 years

  August 9, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 In 1937, John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” hit the bookshelves, Fred Astaire crooned “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” milk cost 14 cents a gallon, and 9 cents …

• Love story: Teenage romance leads to 63 years of marriage

  July 26, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Harold “Pete” Clarke started working at a small South Hill grocery store at age 12. By 16, his duties had expanded to grocery delivery. One day he dropped off groceries …

• After 70 years of marriage, Eastburgs’ romance hasn’t dimmed

  July 12, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Dale Eastburg has never forgotten the first time he saw his future wife, Eva. Neither has she. “I was in the front yard and Dale drove by on his motorcycle … 3

• Love Story: Car wreck tests couple’s character

  June 28, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V5 When Joel and Beverley Novin exchanged wedding vows on July 18, 2001, they included the traditional promise of “in sickness and in health.” Four years later, that vow would be … 1

• Love Story: They became the Le Claire bunch

  June 14, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 He was a single dad raising seven children. She was a single mom with five kids. In 1966, Mel and Darlene Le Claire met when she moved into a house … 1

• Love Story: He chose marriage over professional baseball career

  May 31, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Gary Brown has more than 1,000 baseball caps displayed in his garage. Numbered and cataloged by date, place, and his acquisition of it, each one has a story. But the … 2

• Blind date, ball game brought them together

  May 3, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Patricia “Peacha” McFaul first glimpsed her future husband on a basketball court in January 1951. This comes as no surprise to those who know lifelong athlete Ted McFaul. A mutual …

• Couple sharing dance of life

  April 12, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V3 They danced together. They laughed together.

• Couple meet in retirement home, marry after dating 4 years

  March 1, 2012 in News on Page V1 Love can bloom in unexpected places. For Lorraine Lanterman, 77, and Kent Collings, 95, it blossomed at Orchard Crest Retirement Community. “We met at the bridge table,” Collings recalled.

• Love Story: Van Inwegens met at GU orientation

  February 16, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S4 Patrick Van Inwegen will never forget his first day of school at Gonzaga University in 1992. He enjoyed the excitement of exploring the campus, meeting his professors and making new … 1

• Hard times strengthened couple’s bond

  February 9, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V4 Not all love stories have fairly tale beginnings, no matter how happy the ending may be. When John and Vickie Hershey met, she was still married to her first husband. …

• Love Story: Diluzios married after he left Navy

  January 19, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Almost 70 years ago, Constance Disotell saw a handsome young sailor with a shock of wavy black hair slide into a booth at a Hillyard ice cream parlor where her … 1

• Couple’s feelings lasted through war

  December 22, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Wilson Conaway didn’t care for high school in Youngstown, Ohio. “It was 1942,” he recalled. “The war was on. There were a lot of flags waving, and I wanted to …

• Couple stays ‘footloose and fancy free’ to keep fun times coming

  November 17, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Wayne Best is clear about who is to blame for a union that’s spanned 69 years. “It was all Clara’s fault that we met!” he said. From their north Spokane …

• Couple’s love no different now than when they were teens

  October 27, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Sometimes you get another chance to nab “the one that got away.” Wes Scott did. In 1949, his sister, Charlotte, introduced him to Shirley, her classmate at Colfax High School. … 1

• International union began on the Cheney farm

  October 13, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Hog butchering might not be your idea of a great first date, but it certainly leaves a lasting impression. When Wayne Hull met a pretty girl named Karen at a …

• Love Story: Formal invitation blossomed into 65-year union

  August 25, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V6 Lynn Jackson came up with a unique way of asking a girl out while attending high school near Lansing, Mich., He had an old hand rotary press that he used …

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