Pen Pals have now been married for nearly 70 years

COLERIDGE — Elroy and Carol Hefner are quickly coming close to celebrating 70 years of making memories as husband and wife.

Both Elroy and Carol are Coleridge natives, proudly graduating from the Coleridge High School. Elroy graduated in 1941, while Carol was a few years behind in 1946.

In addition to being Coleridge natives, they have been life-long members of Immanuel Lutheran Church in town.

As they grew up, the two knew of each other. It was not until the war the two were brought together by chance.

Elroy would go on to join the Navy in 1944. He did his training in Idaho before being shipped to the South Pacific. Elroy was part of the “Amphibious Services.” These were the soldiers on an amphibious warfare ship. The ship has a flatter bottom and would pull up near the land, wait for the low tide, unload any supplies needed for the ground troops, and go back out once the tide came back in.

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