Wanted: Arkansas' Longest Married Couple

For the sixth year, Arkansas Family Council is accepting nominations for Arkansas’ Longest Married Couple. They want couples to share their stories of a lifetime commitment to marriage and family. When this year’s search ends in August, Family Council will again honor the longest married couple and their family in their hometown.

“Sharing these couples’ lifetime stories of commitment and faithfulness to each other encourages the next generation that ‘married happily ever after’ still exists. We are blessed and honored to be able to share these stories of forever love,” said Jerry Cox, president of Family Council. “In today’s society we are surrounded by naysayers of marriage, but the married couples we find will prove them all wrong and show that marriage can last a lifetime. Marriage is a sacred covenant between a man and a woman,” Cox continued. “It is not every day that you meet a couple married over 70 years, and when you do, there is truly something special about that relationship.”

Entries for couples married over 70 years can be submitted before Aug. 18 by sending contact information for both you and the candidates for consideration and their marriage date to Charisse Dean at charisse@familycouncil.org. For more information, call the Family Council office at (501) 375-7000.

— Family Council is a conservative education and research organization based in Little Rock with a mission of promoting, protecting and strengthening traditional family values.