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‘Still the greatest thing’: Local couple celebrates 70 years of marriage
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John and Shirley Walters will celebrate 70 years of marriage on June 12. “We go to the (Midway) Meal House every morning and our walkers won’t fit, so the only way we can get in is by holding each other’s hands to hold each other up,” Shirley Walters said. (photo by Bradley Wiseman | Forsyth County News)
“That’s my grandson with Mrs. Bush, and that’s us skiing out in Colorado, and that's me when I was over in Korea in about 1952,” said “Big John” Walters, proudly pointing out just a few of the hundred-odd photographs that line the walls of his home. And as he walks through the spacious South Forsyth home — that he helped to build and where he and his wife Shirley have lived for 28 years — he pauses at intervals to share small parts of the memories that each photo sparked.