A Long Life of Love and Wonder

96-year-old Anna Wise remembers dating her husband in an interview with her daughter, Mary





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I knew pup Paul we were children. I was 8 and he was 11. And I was madly in love with him and I thought surely that I would marry him when I was old enough.

So how did you go about begging him?

Well, I have…I was sassy. I turned on all the tricks that I knew and went to mail, too now and then.

Did you remember your first date?

Yes, I remember that day took me to a baseball game. I was perfectly willing to go. There are anywhere else, we danced the night we, we went to speed kisses, we did all of things are not suppose to do and to make a long story short which people are not fond of doing, we just sort of agree to that it was time to get married.

What year was that?

This was 1933.

And what was the day?

What was the date, well, it’s been so long ago I guess I don’t remember.

November 11.

November 11th, correct.

Tell me about taking care of pa when he got sick.

Well, your father was diagnosed of diabetics. He lost a leg. And diabetics took a many ways. We’d never know what these are going to catch up with this. It’s amazing the things that people can lose too when they have to. So you get so, er…you get so almost anything. And you loomed to be 96. And sometimes you wonder why but then you look up the blue sky, you think it’s gonna be all right.