Harry and Nellie Himes: The Cutest Couple (Bar None:))

Harry and Nellie will be married for 68 years on May 27th. We just had apple pie and ice cream with them this afternoon and they are still going strong. Harry is 91 and Nellie is 86. They have children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren stopping by regularly. Besides apple pie, they serve steak, spaghetti-os, pancakes..whatever the need calls for:). They are often busy with the reunions, wedding and baby showers..and everyone stopped in on Mother's Day of course.
If you plan to have a quiet visit with them, call ahead. They might be shopping, painting, canning, cutting the grass or a variety of other things.
They get along very well. Nellie speaks her mind (a fellow Judge Judy fan:), but is not an argumentative person. She had the spunk to follow Harry to Army bases in Virginia and Illinois (from Pennsylvania) in World War II. In one of these cases, their son Harry Jr. slept in our forefather Patrick Henry's cradle, later restored and placed in his own home/museum?. She lives with one partially operating kidney (somewhere between 12 and 21% operational) because she refused dialysis about 20 years ago. She is cute when she takes Harry, me or anyone by the arm to escort her in a crowded room.
Harry is a true gentleman. You can tell that as soon as you meet him. He has great stories of their early travels to California and about the time they almost bought a farm in my home state of Wisconsin. He, Nellie and the kids built the home they live in when he was working 6 days a week. A couple of weeks ago, he and a man about half his age mowed the church lawn. He still mows his 2 and 1/2 acres and fills up their wood furnace in the winter regularly. Harry takes good care of Nellie and she takes good care of him.
They are more likely to be at church than anyone. Once this past winter, Tom sent them back home from the parking lot because he felt it was unsafe for them to come out. Very few people even attempted it. One of the last to wear a tie regularly on a Sunday morning, he is always kind and respectful. I love his chuckle and sense of humor.
They have been faithful friends and a very big encouragement to us. Everyone who knows them would agree that they are the "cutest couple" they know.