"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it."
"Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it."
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Source: World's oldest person dies at age 116 by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. December 5, 2012.
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