The Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa
August 25, 1942, Page 8
Death Parts Iowa's 'Romance Champions'
Lucas, Iowa (U.P.) – Death has parted Mr. and Mrs. George Goben, both 96, Iowa farm couple whom Hollywood movie makers chose in 1939 as the "national romance champions."
Funeral services for Mrs. Goben will be held Wednesday. She died Monday ending 81 years of married life.
The Gobens were also chosen a few years ago by the True Vow Keepers Club, Kansas City, Mo., as the longest-married couple in the United States.
Asked their formula for a happy marriage, the aged couple told a radio audience at the time, "always stay together; never be separated a single day or night."
They were married in 1861 when he was working as a hired man and she as hired girl on a farm near Osceola, Ia.
She had been ill several years after fracturing a hip in a fall at home. Three sons and three daughters survive.
Transcribed as published by Karen Brewer
August 25, 1942, Page 8
Death Parts Iowa's 'Romance Champions'
Lucas, Iowa (U.P.) – Death has parted Mr. and Mrs. George Goben, both 96, Iowa farm couple whom Hollywood movie makers chose in 1939 as the "national romance champions."
Funeral services for Mrs. Goben will be held Wednesday. She died Monday ending 81 years of married life.
The Gobens were also chosen a few years ago by the True Vow Keepers Club, Kansas City, Mo., as the longest-married couple in the United States.
Asked their formula for a happy marriage, the aged couple told a radio audience at the time, "always stay together; never be separated a single day or night."
They were married in 1861 when he was working as a hired man and she as hired girl on a farm near Osceola, Ia.
She had been ill several years after fracturing a hip in a fall at home. Three sons and three daughters survive.
Transcribed as published by Karen Brewer
The Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa
August 25, 1942, Page 8
Death Parts Iowa's 'Romance Champions'
Lucas, Iowa (U.P.) – Death has parted Mr. and Mrs. George Goben, both 96, Iowa farm couple whom Hollywood movie makers chose in 1939 as the "national romance champions."
Funeral services for Mrs. Goben will be held Wednesday. She died Monday ending 81 years of married life.
The Gobens were also chosen a few years ago by the True Vow Keepers Club, Kansas City, Mo., as the longest-married couple in the United States.
Asked their formula for a happy marriage, the aged couple told a radio audience at the time, "always stay together; never be separated a single day or night."
They were married in 1861 when he was working as a hired man and she as hired girl on a farm near Osceola, Ia.
She had been ill several years after fracturing a hip in a fall at home. Three sons and three daughters survive.
Transcribed as published by Karen Brewer
August 25, 1942, Page 8
Death Parts Iowa's 'Romance Champions'
Lucas, Iowa (U.P.) – Death has parted Mr. and Mrs. George Goben, both 96, Iowa farm couple whom Hollywood movie makers chose in 1939 as the "national romance champions."
Funeral services for Mrs. Goben will be held Wednesday. She died Monday ending 81 years of married life.
The Gobens were also chosen a few years ago by the True Vow Keepers Club, Kansas City, Mo., as the longest-married couple in the United States.
Asked their formula for a happy marriage, the aged couple told a radio audience at the time, "always stay together; never be separated a single day or night."
They were married in 1861 when he was working as a hired man and she as hired girl on a farm near Osceola, Ia.
She had been ill several years after fracturing a hip in a fall at home. Three sons and three daughters survive.
Transcribed as published by Karen Brewer
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