Kenneth & Bertie Bruton celebrate 70 years

Bertie Bruton credits the good Lord and taking each day as it comes for her 70 years to Kenneth Bruton, who caught her eye when she worked at Palace Drug on Main Street in 1948 or 1949.

“I worked at the drug store and he worked three or four doors down at a service station,” she said. “That’s how we got to know each other. We just hit it off.”

She was still attending Olney High School, and Kenneth had graduated. They went to the movies and “just went together some and then we didn’t go together,” she said. They married in 1954 at the old Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Main Street, and the church is still a focal point of their life and marriage.

“Live every day as it comes and live each day always with God there with you, and God will take care of you,” she said, when asked the secret to her and Kenneth’s long marriage.

The couple became parents to Aaron in 1963 and welcomed their daughter-in-law Lindy, three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, Along their journey, Kenneth worked for and retired from Lonestar Gas Company and as a farmer, and Bertie worked for the General Telephone & Electronics Corp, and as a mother to Aaron.

They marked their 70th anniversary with a meal with their son and daughter-in-law. “We had a celebration on our 50th and I didn’t want anything more,” Bertie said. “We just live life as it comes. We’ve been blessed. God has been right there with us.”