Bernie and Virginia Schalther lived most of their respective 90 years together, producing 13 offspring during the first 18 years of their marriage.Eyes turned when the couple took their kids on Sunday drives in their 9-passenger station wagon in the 1950s and '60s.
“When we’d come to a red light, you could see the people next to us counting us in the car,” said Jeanne Frey, their 4th-born child said.
A special "Double Dash Between" was published in the July 11, 2010, edition of the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram for Bernie, who died May 21, 2010, and Virginia, who passed a few weeks later on June 26, 2010.
Both were born in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, and lived in Elyria, Ohio, since 1948.
Click here to read their "Dash Between" and view 20 photos of them at various phases in life, including this family portrait from 1961:
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