Young love: Meet a couple married 75 years and another that married after 80

Saturday, February 9, 2019 ~ Updated 10:59 PM

At a skating rink on an otherwise unremarkable evening in the early 1940s, a young woman named Allene Siemers found the love of her life at the end of her foot.

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