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Personal data Emma Lavere STALEY 

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Household of Emma Lavere STALEY

She is married to Max William ROBINSON.

They got married on November 1, 1929 at San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States of America, she was 17 years old.Source 3


Notes about Emma Lavere STALEY

November 23rd, 2009

We hit the jackpot on Monday's Alan Autry Show. I was inspired to meet Max and Lavere Robinson, who are 98 and 97 years old and may be the oldest living married couple. They have been married 80 years this month. They live alone in their own home. Lavere still cooks their meals and Max still works two days a week in public relations.

Here are some secrets to success from their interview:
* Respect each other's thoughts. There is a lot of love mixed in there.
* Deep love is the most important thing.
* Listen. You get some good advice.
* Get married for the right reasons. If you get married just because you are tired of being single or just because of a fascination for what it's like to be married, the relationship will not last.
* When you get into an argument, communicate and talk it out.
* They had arguments when they were young. They talked them out.

* They eloped and kept their marriage a secret for six weeks because her father disapproved. Her father thought she was too young. When they broke the news to her father, he said it would never last. Lavere thought that is part of what kept them together, because they wanted to prove him wrong. Both the newlyweds had jobs and they thought their struggling parents could do better if they did not have to support them.

* Their longevity diet: She was raised on a farm; she ate lots of vegetables and fruits, very little meat. That is their religious belief as well.

* They met in church and they are still going to church regularly at the Sierra Ward, Fresno, West Stake.

"Don't take marriage lightly," counsels Laver Robinson. "You have to have a strong determination to make your marriage a success."
Max and Laver Robinson, married for 80 years, continue to do the things that nurture their happiness.

Any wise marriage advice from Max Robinson and his wife is backed by 80 years of experience. The couple, members of the Sierra Ward, Fresno California West Stake, will celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary Nov. 1.

Brother and Sister Robinson, both 97, live by themselves in their home of 40 years and are the parents of three daughters; they have 12 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

"Max and I really have had a great life together," Sister Robinson said during a telephone interview with the Church News.

The couple met during the height of the Great Depression at Church in Oakland, Calif., in their young adult class. With both of their fathers out of work, they felt fortunate to have jobs and decided they could do better on their own. On Nov. 1, 1929, at the age of 17, the two traveled to San Jose where they were married by a judge.

"Needless to say, when our parents found out they weren't too happy with us," Sister Robinson said. "My father said it would never last."

Those words, however, served as further determination for the couple. They made a decision to prove him wrong, Sister Robinson said, and they did.

A strong sense of commitment is one thing that has assisted their long marriage. "There are times where you think, 'This isn't worth it.' But then you work it out."

Sister Robinson described their marriage as "very good."

"I won't say we never quarrel, but we communicate well and settle it."

Their marriage was solemnized in the Mormon Church's Fresno California Temple Feb. 18, 2008. Neither Brother Robinson nor Sister Robinson has plans to slow down.

"People say, 'You can't be 97,'" Sister Robinson said. She insists that their youthfulness can be attributed to living a clean life in accordance with the Word of Wisdom, not giving in to despondency or depression, and keeping active. Brother Robinson, who turns 98 on Nov. 14, still works twice a week doing public relations. work for one of his grandsons.

"I'm too young to retire," he insists.

"We've had a beautiful time [celebrating our anniversary] but now we'll buckle down and get back to work," Sister Robinson said.

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Emma Lavere STALEY
1912-2013

1929

Max William ROBINSON
1911-2013


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Sources

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  3. 1930 U.S. census, \i ancestry.com\i0, Digital images, 1930 US Census, California, Alameda, T626

Historical events

Birthday September 26, 1912

  • The temperature on September 26, 1912 was between 1.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
    • June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
    • August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
    • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
    • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
    • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

Day of marriage November 1, 1929

  • The temperature on November 1, 1929 was between 3.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
    • May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
    • June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
    • June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
    • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
    • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

Day of death August 29, 2013

  • The temperature on August 29, 2013 was between 9.2 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
    • January 15 » A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
    • April 19 » Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
    • May 25 » A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
    • May 31 » A record breaking 2.6 mile wide tornado strikes El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, causing eight fatalities and over 150 injuries.
    • June 7 » A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
    • August 19 » The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.


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