A spry pair, both 89 years old, are celebrating a match made for life today. Kenneth and Edith Plummer have been married 70 years. The pair married May 18, 1933 in Fallon at the Episcopal Church.
Kenneth is the nephew of former teacher, Carson Daily Morning News reporter and first female U.S. Branch Mint Carson City superintendent, Annie Hudnall Martin.
Edith is the daughter of a longtime Reno area family.
They met at Hobart Mills where Edith's father served as the barber. They left the camp to go to Fallon to be married, but daughter Suzanne Plummer Mund said she didn't know why.
Mund the Plummer's friends and family helped them celebrate Saturday at the Lake Glen Manor Clubhouse.
The Plummers also have a granddaughter, Kirsten Mund and one great-grandchild and two great-great-grandchildren.
Kenneth served with the 82nd Airborne in the U.S. Army during World War II and spent his 30th birthday flying the English Channel. In the meantime, Edith was living with her sister and her family in Reno and working at a jewelry store.
After the war, the pair lived in San Francisco where he worked as the superintendent of transportation for the Western Pacific Railroad.
Mund was born in Alameda, Calif.
Kenneth and Edith moved to Lake Tahoe when he retired in 1975 and to Carson City in 1986. But this was not the first time Kenneth had made the capital city his home.
He moved to Carson City to live with his aunt, Annie H. Martin, when he was about 6 years old. Martin died in Feb. 19, 1928 at the age of 71 when Kenneth was 14.
