{"id":164343,"date":"2026-02-14T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:29:09","slug":"we-still-do-married-couples-of-60-years-renew-vows-on-valentines-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164343\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We still do&#8217;: Married couples of 60+ years renew vows on Valentine&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2tuyi5cf3rneb223.jpg\" alt=\"Couples renew vows after 60+ years of marriage\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/fmc-2oe1purzzs61zt6l\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Couples renew vows after 60+ years of marriage<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">Four Houston-area couples renewed their commitment to one another on Valentine&#8217;s Eve. FOX 26&#8217;s Randy Wallace spoke to two of those couples, each with over 60 years of marriage under their belts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; We still do and we always will. That was the theme for Friday&#8217;s vow renewal at Stonecreek at Copperfield.<\/p>\n<p>   Valentine&#8217;s vow renewals at Houston senior living center <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">4 couples renewed their vows, including Lawrence &#8220;Red&#8221; Lehnert and Betty Lehnert. Friday was their 72nd\u00a0anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">When asked how the couple stayed together for over 70 years, Red said, &#8220;Cherish one another and do what you&#8217;re supposed to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Peter and Joan Postma renewed their vows after 63 years of marriage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Peter can&#8217;t help himself from bragging about his wife&#8217;s accomplishments and for good reason. Joan won a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics for swimming and has a school named after her in the CyFair school district.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;God has been very good,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The couples are living proof that true love can last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 26 spoke to the Lehnerts and the Postmas at Stonecreek at Copperfield.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/good-news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holidays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Couples renew vows after 60+ years of marriage Four Houston-area couples renewed their commitment to one another on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10300,18837,1972,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-164343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-good-news","10":"tag-holidays","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}