Meet the Nation’s ‘Longest Married’ Couple (80 Years!)

Bulletin Today | Home & Family | RelationshipsThe Associated Press FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — John and Ann Betar weren’t supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped in New York. That was more than 80 years ago. The couple is still happily hitched, a fact that has led to their naming as the “longest married couple” in the United States for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San …