Born 13 March 1900;
31 October 1904 ( 1900-03-131904-10-31 ) Died 15 June 2005(2005-06-15) (aged 105);
9 April 2007(2007-04-09) (aged 102) | ||
Percy Arrowsmith (March 13, 1900 – June 15, 2005) and Flo(rence) Arrowsmith (October 31, 1904 – April 9, 2007) were, until Percy's death, a long time married couple residing in Hereford, England.
Life
On June 1, 2005 they erroneously made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple. They had been married for 80 years, having married in Hereford in 1925, three years after they met.
However, Le Monde newspaper revealed that one couple in France was even older than the Arrowsmiths: André Léon Alphonse Debry (June 15, 1898 - August 31, 2005) and Marguerite Pingaud (October 10, 1903 - January 2006) were married on August 12, 1924 and celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary in August 2005 shortly before the husband's death.
Percy died only exactly two weeks later on at age 105 and Florence died almost two years afterwards at age 102.