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70 years of love
Published 06:00 a.m., August 16, 2009
An Erhard couple married 70 years ago last week is celebrating a major milestone.
Marvin and Gladys Kugler were married Aug. 10, 1939, at the home of a Fergus Falls minister. They’d been neighbors north of town, and Marvin would travel the roughly three miles between their houses to visit — sometimes walking, other times arriving on horseback.
Decades later, the Kuglers still remember those early years.
“She was a happy girl,” Marvin, 94, recalls. And she had beautiful red hair.
“I guess that’s what he fell in love with me for,” Gladys, 85, said.
The Kuglers spent most of their married life in Erhard, where they purchased a one-room log house and 30 acres of land after living with Gladys’ parents for a couple of years. Marvin spent his days working in a wooded lot several miles from their home. He’d walk to the lot, ax in hand, with his lunch sometimes freezing en route during the winter.
“Then he’d come home and have a few cows to milk and that was our day,” Gladys said.
The couple was poor but fairly happy, as were many people in the area at the time, she said.
The Kuglers later moved to other locations in Erhard, all along High Island Lake. Gladys, 84, still lives in their home, while Marvin, 95, has lived at Pioneer Senior Cottages since May.
The couple celebrated their anniversary with family Monday night — about 70 people, aptly enough. The Kuglers have four adult children, 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great grandchildren. One grandchild got married seven years ago on th Kuglers’ anniversary.
The significance of the marriage has not been lost on the Kuglers’ children.
“Mom and Dad instilled good values in us,” said Brenda Peasley, the couple’s daughter. “They always told us when you marry someone it’s a life
long commitment.”
Immediate family, most of whom live in Erhard, say the couple has an enduring sense of humor and a relationship built on respect.
“The first thing is love,” Gladys said. “If you don’t have love it isn’t going to work.”
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congratulations to the Kuglers.....may God give you yet more!!!
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