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Love story legacy.(The Goodness Of America)(Obituary)
On January 23, George Limpert of St. Louis, Missouri, died at age 102 of complications from pneumonia. He and Mrs. Limpert, 100, celebrated their 82nd wedding anniversary on September 9 last year. Their life together has left a lasting legacy of love.
Seven of the Limperts' 10 sons and daughters are living. They lost an infant son in 1941 and another son to lung cancer in 1988. Joseph Limpert, 19, was killed in World War 11 during the battle for Iwo Jima. Three sons later served in the Korean War. In addition to the children, the couple's extended family includes 39 grandchildren, 117 great-grandchildren, 45 great-great-grandchildren and eight great-great-great-grandchildren.
George met his bride-to-be, Amelia Kwiatkowski, in 1919. He was a machinist in a St. Louis plant that made paint spray guns and lamp guards, and she was a teenager from Pennsylvania working on the plant's assembly line. It was, literally, love at first sight. George drilled a hole in the factory wall that separated them, so he could watch Amelia work, and even when both had passed the century mark he continued to insist that she was the "prettiest gal" he had ever seen.
In the aftermath of World War I, however, Amelia's parents opposed the marriage of their Polish daughter to her German suitor. The couple eventually eloped on September 9, 1921, and were wed by a justice of the peace. The next month, according to the Associated Press, "the devout Catholics had a formal marriage ceremony."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Love story legacy.(The Goodness Of America)(Obituary)