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Lessons of life and love: Local couple married nearly 70 years die same day
By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com
Dan Foland and Marjorie Haidet were married in Wilmington on Feb. 2, 1951, nearly 70 years ago.
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They met in second grade and were married nearly 70 years when they died Tuesday within five hours of each other, both of COVID-19 complications.
Dan Foland and his wife Marjorie were 90 and now were residing in the Ohio Living Quaker Heights Care Community in Waynesville, after living almost all their married life on a State Route 134 South farm in Clinton County.
As to their primary-grades introduction to one another, their daughter Susan Ertel said, “My mom just thought my dad was just the cutest boy in her class.” There’s an intermission to this otherwise lifelong love story when Marjorie’s family, which relocated frequently because her father was a salesman, moved to Michigan.
Lessons of life and love: Local couple married nearly 70 years die same day
By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com
Marjorie and Dan Foland enjoy themselves for the 2017 wedding of a grandson.
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Dan Foland and Marjorie Haidet were married in Wilmington on Feb. 2, 1951, nearly 70 years ago.
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They met in second grade and were married nearly 70 years when they died Tuesday within five hours of each other, both of COVID-19 complications.
Dan Foland and his wife Marjorie were 90 and now were residing in the Ohio Living Quaker Heights Care Community in Waynesville, after living almost all their married life on a State Route 134 South farm in Clinton County.