A Kentucky couple who divorced after 12 years of marriage in the 1960s will walk down the aisle again for good some 50 years later this month after finding faith and collectively losing several other spouses.
Harold Holland, 83, and Lillian Barnes, 78, got married on Dec. 24, 1955, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.
Their marriage ended in 1967 after having five children in just eight-and-a-half years.
“I think the fact that we had the kids so fast and he worked every day while I stayed home with the kids [was what caused the end of our marriage],” Lillian told The Christian Post from her home in Kentucky on Monday. “We just didn’t really have any time [for each other]. You grow apart whenever you don’t have the time to enjoy each other.”
Harold and Lillian weren’t Christians when they got married but shortly after they divorced they both began attending different churches.
“After the divorce I started going to church and he did too, and it’s been a journey,” said Lillian.
In the following years, Lillian married Ted Malin and had two more children. Ted died of a massive heart attack in 1986, according to the Herald Leader. She then remarried in 1988 to Arval Barnes and they stayed together until he died in January 2015.
Harold ended up marrying Maudie Corum, a widow with three children, in 1975. She died of liver disease in 2015.
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