85-Year-Old Couple To Remarry Nearly Half-Century After Divorce

85-Year-Old Couple To Remarry

An 85-year-old couple from New York, who spent nearly half a century apart having split up in 1964, are set to remarry at a ceremony on Saturday.

Lena Henderson and Roland Davis, both 85 years old, married in their teenage years but split up after 20 years of marriage.

Roland remarried and moved to Colorado Springs, but he stayed in close touch with his ex, who often gave his new wife advice on "how to deal with him."

Worried about him being alone in Colorado, their oldest daughter, Johnnie Mae Funderbirk, began urging him to come back East and reconnect with Lena and the rest of the family.

Earlier this year, Roland proposed to an accepting Lena over the phone and the two are happily looking forward for the ceremony this weekend. To be witnessed by over four generations of family, the event will be held at the Elim Christian Fellowship Church in Central Park Plaza, followed by a reception at an Amherst restaurant.

Lena will be wearing a steel blue dress while Roland a black tuxedo.