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Integrated Skills II
Social issues, Helping Elderly People
Lesson 2


Handout 1 C, Activity 1 Text 3 To Have and Too Old: Dance Partners with Combined Age of 193 Become World’s Oldest Ever Newlyweds
By Paul Andrews
A dancing couple with a combined age of 193 have tied the knot - and become the world's oldest ever newlyweds.
Forrest Lunsway, 100, married Rose Pollard, 93, after he finally popped the question following a 28-year courtship. The loved-up couple, who are both keen ballroom dancers, met on the dance floor of a community centre in 1983.
Forrest Lunsway met his wife Rose Pollard 30 years ago, but a 28-year courtship followed before finally tying the knot. Rose promised to marry Forrest on his 100th birthday.
They became dance partners but love blossomed and now 30 years after meeting they have finally wed - on Forrest's 100th birthday. Rose and Forrest, of Dana Point, California, wed at a combined age of 193 - making them the oldest newly-weds on record. The wedding means the couple become the world's oldest ever newlyweds, beating an English couple from Barnsley by ten years.
Rose said she initially told him she'd never marry him but she finally succumbed when he popped the question last year. She said: ‘I told him up front I had no intention of getting married. But then one day he asked me “how come we never got married?" and I said “because you never asked me".
Forrest said: ‘We've got many happy years left as I intend to stick around until I'm at least 110. You've got to use it or lose it.’ The pair, who are dance partners, showed younger wedding guests their moves.
The wedding was a total surprise for all the guests - who thought they had been invited to Forrest's birthday party. Pastor Sam Lewis, who officiated the ceremony, said: ‘I’ve done a lot of crazy weddings, but this is awesome. The theme of the wedding was “you’re not done living until you’re dead."’
Forrest was born in Indiana and raised in Kansas before he moved to California when he was 14 years old and later worked as a ditch digger. The couple first became dance partners 30 years ago. This grainy picture is from their first time dancing together. Forrest and Rose were at the sprightly ages of 70 and 63. The happy couple, who have both been married before, spent their wedding night at a local hotel with champagne and strawberries in their room after leaving the wedding in a limo.
A spokesman for The Guinness Book of World Records said they had been informed of Forrest and Rose's wedding and are set to verify it as a world record.