S/O Dork/How did you Meet Thread, etc - Longest Married?

Wow, 73 is amazing. My maternal grandparents were married 62 years. 

My parents have been married for 61 years and they are halfway to 62 years.

Sadly, people in my family don’t live long enough to be married that long.   I know my grandparents made it to 50 years but not sure how much beyond that. I’ve had several friends that made it to just over 50 years. With one couple the wife passed away, the other couple I know is at 54 years married and still going strong. DH and I have been together for going on 38 years, married almost 34 of those years.

Had my father lived, my parenets would have been married 75 years this New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, he passed when they had 58 years. My mom is 92.

My parents had been married for 76 years when my dad died. The WWII generation. They met in Australia when my dad was in the Navy. He was on shore leave and the local Catholic church held dances for sailors and the young girls. The entrance "fee" was that you had to go to Mass first. lol. So my very not Catholic mother went off happily to mass. hahaha The rest is history, as they say.

DH’s parents were married for 60+ years. I’m not sure exactly. We had our 51st anniversary in April. 

we met during early years - went to the same church, the same schools - both junior and high school.
It was at high school that we began dating, and have been together since.

Not sure how to calculate for my parents as they could be celebrating 60 this year, but a silly divorce got in the way for about 13 of those years. They remarried 14 years ago.

My inlaws just celebrated 58.

My parents have been married 61 years.

I think my paternal grandparents made it past 50 years (maybe 55?). My maternal grandparents separated at around 30 years and my grandfather died very soon after (sadly, he took his own life and I have no real memories of him). My stepmother who I grew up mostly with, her parents made it to forty years before her father died).

My dad and stepmother will celebrate 50 years this fall.

ETA I don't know about my great grandparents. I really only know about my dad's side.  One set of his grandparents both died somewhat young, maybe 50 and 60?.The other set lived longer.  I imagine they made it to 50 years. 

husband and I were married for 53 years before he passed this past spring
That is the longest I know about in both sides of our families

my parents are like others and will celebrate their 61st this year.

We celebrated my dad's 91st birthday and their 60th wedding anniversary together last year because they are in the same month.

I think with my dad's age, we'll have a big party for him every year because being over 90 and in fairly good health deserves to be celebrated!

We use to have a mountain cabin near Flagstaff...most everyone there had a second home and lived in Phoenix during the winter. So the charming church we would go to had a minister who mentioned he was celebrating his 50th wedding anniversary. He wanted to know how many in the congregation had been married 50 years...well about 90% of the hands went up. So then he asked 55 years. Still most hands were up. Then he asked 60? Well...about 50% of the hands were still raised.