Thirty-eight years ago today, on March 4, 1983, George Jones wed Nancy Sepulvado. The ceremony took place at the home of Jones sister, Helen Scroggins, in Woodville, Texas.
The marriage was the fourth for Jones. Previously, he had been married to Dorothy Bonvillion, Shirley Ann Corley and Tammy Wynette, the last of whom he divorced in 1975. But it was Sepulvado, his wife until his death in 2013, whom Jones considered his soulmate. No teenage boy ever fell harder for a girl than I fell for Nancy Sepulvado, Jones said in his 1996 autobiography,
I Lived to Tell It All (quote via
Country Weekly). When I met my future wife on a blind date in November 1981, I had no idea that someday she would save my life.
For most of his early life, George Jones was a gifted artist with a drinking problem and self-destructive bent, but there's nothing like the love of a good woman to turn a guy around.