Couple’s 85 years of wedded bliss
Liu Yung-yang, 103, and his wife Yang Wan, 102, held hands as they received the certificate at their home in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan. They were married in April 1917, two years earlier than the American couple William and Claudia Lillian Ritchie of Lexington, Kentucky.
At the request of relatives, Liu, wearing a new brown suit, sang several folk songs as his wife, in a blue satin gown, listened. While her husband appeared in good health, Yang Wan has lost her eyesight and uses a wheelchair About 40 of a total 110 of the couple's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren gathered at their three-storey house for the celebration.
