LoveisCommitment

Amos & Gladys















Amos and Gladys Poe married in 1940. They decided to drive to the pastor's house and get married one day and despite having a flat tire on the way, they still did it! They were married for one year when Pearl Harbor was bombed, so Amos was drafted and shipped overseas for 2 yrs. They have been married for 68 years.


John & Vida
John and Vida Kizziah met in high school on a blind date to a basketball game. She was 17 and he was 22 since he had been serving in the Vietnam War and had come back to finish school. John even eventually drove Vida’s bus route since he was old enough to drive the school bus because of being away at the war. They started dating in February of 1948 and in November of 1949 they were driving down old Highway 11 coming back from town when he turned to her and said “You are going to marry me. You can’t marry anybody else but me.” And so they did! He didn’t ask her to marry him, he told her she was marrying him. That week they got her mother and went to town to get married at the court house. While Vida was getting her hair fixed and getting a new dress, her mother and future husband went to the downtown Tuscaloosa courthouse to get the marriage license and hire the Justice of the Peace to marry them. The court house officials tried to make the license out to Vida’s mother and John! After a $6 court house wedding, one daughter, 2 grandkids, and 1 greatgranddaughter later, they have been married for 58 years.

Bruce & Charlotte

















Bruce and Charlotte Davis met when he was in high school and she was almost finished with Junior High. Bruce was driving up Bridge Avenue (Lurleen Wallace Blvd) one day when he spotted Charlotte outside in front of her house. Since his mother and her mother were best friends and they all went to church together, he had his mother to set him up a date with Charlotte. Just a few short months later and they were picking out engagement rings at Fincher & Osmont and got married before Charlotte even finished high school. They had 4 children and 4 grandchildren and were married for 54 years, before parting upon the death of Charlotte in January 2008.






Robert & Myrtis




















Robert and Myrtis Hale met on a blind double date while still they were each seeing other people and it was love at first sight. She was in high school and he was out of school, and after their first date Robert called 2 weeks later and they never dated anyone else again. Six months after they met he told her “We’re getting married” and gave her a charm bracelet with a heart on it at Christmas. The following Valentine’s Day he gave her an engagement ring and they were married the next month in March on his birthday. Since her parents did not approve of the marriage since she was still in high school and too young to get married in Alabama without her parents consent, they eloped to Columbus, Mississippi where her cousins lived and they helped them get to the court house to get married. They had 2 children, 5 grandchildren, and 14 great grandchildren and have been married for 56 years.



Lewis & Allene

Lewis and Allene Henry met when Lewis was coming to pick up one of her ten sisters for a date. He had been serving in WWII digging on the Panama Canal so he was older than Allene and courting her older sisters. Lewis was told he was quite a catch by her father since he went to church, didn’t drink and had a good job at the Tuscaloosa Newspaper printing room. Once Lewis spotted the 10 year younger sister it was love at first sight. A few months after they were at her parents house eating Sunday lunch and Papa Cook asked when they were going to get married. They were married the next month after church one Sunday morning. After 3 children, 4 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild, they were married 55 years, before parting upon the death of Allene in 1999.

Dennis & Wanda
Dennis and Wanda Henry met in the band at Tuscaloosa County High school. They dated through high school and got engaged after high school and married the year after when they were 19. After 2 children and 1 granddaughter they have been married 36 years.

Lewis & Pat
Lewis and Pat Ray met the summer after Pat graduated from high school in Ohio. She had come to visit some of her family in Alabama for the summer for her senior trip. Lewis was coming to pick up Pat’s cousin for a date when they met and it was love at first sight. After the summer was over and Pat was getting ready to go back home to Ohio, Lewis proposed telling her “Well I guess I can’t let you go.” They were married 2 weeks later. After 3 children and 6 grandchildren, they have been married 39 years.

Greg & Kelli
Greg and Kelli met in college through mutual friends at a party at his house. Greg proposed after they dated 2 years by driving Kelli to the beach in Gulf Shores and planting a message in a bottle for her to find reading “Will you marry me?” They were married the following May after they both graduated from college. They have been married for 5 years and just had their 1st child in September of 2008.






















Justin & Jennifer




















Justin and Jennifer Ray met in tenth grade in high school where they were just friends. Through high school they were close friends and were on Yearbook Staff and the TCHS Tennis team together. Jennifer even set Justin up with two of her friends in high school. When they got to college at Alabama they still had classes together and became closer than friends going on date nights with Justin’s fraternity. The summer after their freshman year of college they started dating and were married three years to the day of their first date in May of 2005. After a chaotic first year of marriage involving moving five times and being Hurricane Katrina evacuees, they had their first child in April of 2007. They have been married for 3 years.