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It was 1957, and Rhinelander’s Leona Forth laid eyes on Marv Schumacher for the first time.
“That’s how we met, on a blind date,” she said. “That was it.”
She knew right away. The outgoing, smiling, happy man would become her life partner.
“He was the most generous,” Leona said. “He was the best guy in the world.”
The couple took over Leona’s family business, running Forth Floral for decades.
Marv and Leona Schumacher.
On their 25th wedding anniversary, they bought themselves a treat.
“This guy was selling clocks. We looked at this one. I said, ‘I think that’s such a neat clock. Why don’t we consider, this will be our anniversary gift to each other?’ So that’s what we did,” she remembered.