When Paul Anderson first saw Sue, he noticed her shiny hair. She was wearing a purple pinafore skirt, a white shirt and Oxfords.
She was boarding in downtown Dalton for the summer, working and playing softball for a company that made bedspreads. She was 15.
“I thought I’d never be lucky enough to land a girl that beautiful,” Paul Anderson said on Tuesday.
But a few years later, he was. They’ve been together ever since.
On Tuesday, the couple celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with a candlelit dinner in their Dalton home.
Paul Anderson was working at a grocery store downtown at age 19 when Sue began coming into the store. She was 20.
“She came in where I worked,” Paul Anderson remembered. “I think I expressed interest to a co-worker. His wife was a friend of hers.”
He asked Sue for a date, and the two went to Chattanooga to eat dinner one Sunday afternoon.
“I saw her every day from then on,” he said.
They wed less than a year later on Jan. 8, 1943, at a preacher’s home.
The couple has had “an awful lot of luck to be able to make it this long,” Paul Anderson said. “Back then, you got married for keeps. You didn’t think about divorce.”
Paul Anderson retired in 1985 as postmaster of the Thornton Avenue Post Office. Sue Anderson worked for Aladdin Mills for 20 years before retiring.
They have two children, Bob and Don; three grandchildren, Andy, Adam and Robbie; and three great-grandchildren, Will, Ashlyn and Lily.
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Paul and Sue Anderson, of Dalton, get ready to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary by sitting down to a candlelight meal on Tuesday. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)
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January 9, 2013
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Police and Fire Games: Dalton firefighter snags second place
Mason Martin, back right, cheers on his mother, Serena Martin, an officer with the Dalton Police Department, as she pushes a patrol car as part of an obstacle course to determine the “Toughest Overall” during the Georgia Police and Fire Games on Monday at the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Department’s firing range. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)
A seasoned Dalton firefighter placed second in the Toughest Overall Competitor event at the Police and Fire Games in Dalton on Monday.
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