Rosie the Riveters salute Westland couple on 75 years of marriage
On a rainy Saturday in February, Henry and Emma Timmermann were pronounced man and wife at St. John's Lutheran Church, which was then in Westland. Emma, 95, doesn't remember feeling nervous, but she does remember — 75 years later — that Henry was nursing a hangover. From their Westland home that they built together, three-quarters of a century later, Henry, 96, can still remember the first time he laid eyes on Emma at a Halloween party in the church basement, which is now located in Wayne, just over a month after the end of World War II. "I said, 'That's a good looking woman,' "...