The secret to being — and staying — married for 68 years? Tolerance ... and two TVs.
So says Jim Beatty, as he and Mary Beatty celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary this weekend.
The couple married March 17, 1956, at the First Baptist Church in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. They first met some three years earlier at a ballroom dance in McKeesport, about seven miles from Turtle Creek.
Mary cuts through her husband’s humor with her reasons for marriage longevity: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you; this is how to treat your partner.”
Also, “Patience; we both have the love of the Lord; and a sense of humor is critical,” she adds.
He worked at Pittsburgh Steel Corp. while she quit her Bell Telephone when they got married, later hiring on as a bookkeeper at a plumbing company.
Their path to Boerne began in 1962 when they moved to San Antonio, where they opened Dynamic Health Foods in the 1970s.
The family moved to Boerne in 1973. He built the house where they currently live, which is where they raised their three daughters, all Boerne High graduates: Laura Beatty of Los Angeles, Rhonda Haniford of Denver, and Rita Kellogg of Leon Springs.
A family dinner is planned to celebrate the anniversary.
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