Percy & Florence Arrowsmith
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Percy (March 13, 1900–June 15, 2005) and Florence Arrowsmith (born October 31, 1904) were, until Percy's death, a married couple residing in Hereford, United Kingdom. On June 1, 2005 they made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple. They had been married for 80 years, having married in Hereford in 1925, three years after they met.
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External links
- CBS News: Couple Celebrates 80th Anniversary (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/01/world/main698950.shtml)
- BBC Obituary for Percy Arrowsmith (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/4097154.stm)
