Positivity: Oklahoma Couple’s 72-Year Marriage Honored

A commemorative brick? Making it through 72 years of marriage in this world seems to call for a statue, in a story tailor-made for Valentine’s Day:

Main Street Siloam Springs to honor 72-year marriage with commemorative brick
February 7, 2006

SILOAM SPRINGS, Arkansas —
Main Street Siloam Springs Inc. will honor Henry and Viva Dilbeck with an engraved brick for Valentine’s Day. The Dilbecks, who have been married 72 years, were lifetime residents of Siloam Springs until their recent move to Gentry.

Henry Adrian Dilbeck was born May 3, 1913, in Montoya, N. M., and Viva E. Trammell was born Feb. 23, 1915, in Siloam Springs. The couple married on Nov. 23, 1934, in Sand Springs, Okla.

Of their seven children, four were born in Siloam Springs and five are graduates of Siloam Springs High School. Their three sons are Howard Dilbeck and his wife Ingrid, Loren Dilbeck and his wife Shirley, and Henry Dilbeck Jr. and his wife Margaret. Their four daughters are Arlene Bradford and her husband Don, Annette Andrada, Judy Carson, and Juanita Trammell and her husband Ray.

The Dilbecks have 31 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and four great-greatgrandchildren.

Mr. Dilbeck was a postal clerk on the Kansas City Southern Railway Co. mail car for 28 years until he retired.

Mrs. Dilbeck was a homemaker most of her life. “Main Street is delighted to donate and place a brick in front of Twin Springs Park to celebrate their long and happy union,” said Ellie Zwaryck, interim executive director of Main Street Siloam Springs.