Couple marks modest beginning 40 years richer
Photos by DEAN HUMPHREY/The Daily Sentinel—Chuck and Diana Mathis of Grand Junction walk down the aisle Saturday at First United Methodist Church, renewing their marital vows 40 years to the hour after their wedding at the same church. BELOW: They embrace as their grandchildren, from right, Caden Thompson and Ava and Grayson Mathis, who served as flower children, wait for their grandparents to renew their vows after 40 years of marriage. Daughter-in-law Katie Mathis, left, watches at First United Methodist Church. As if a sign that their marriage would endure, Chuck and Diana Mathis survived a fire in their hotel in Montrose on their wedding night
Dean Humphrey
Photos by DEAN HUMPHREY/The Daily Sentinel—Chuck and Diana Mathis of Grand Junction walk down the aisle Saturday at First United Methodist Church, renewing their marital vows 40 years to the hour after their wedding at the same church. BELOW: They embrace as their grandchildren, from right, Caden Thompson and Ava and Grayson Mathis, who served as flower children, wait for their grandparents to renew their vows after 40 years of marriage. Daughter-in-law Katie Mathis, left, watches at First United Methodist Church. As if a sign that their marriage would endure, Chuck and Diana Mathis survived a fire in their hotel in Montrose on their wedding night
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Rachel Sauer
Saturday, November 3, 2012
On that afternoon 40 years ago, she was in buttercup yellow and he was in a tuxedo only the ‘70s could have produced. She wore a wreath of flowers on her glossy chestnut hair, he wore a…
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