Valentine\u2019s Day \u201cwas just another day,\u201d said Zella Marie Coggin, a patient at Eastern Plumas Health Care\u2019s Portola hospital. That is, until Eldred, her husband of seventy years, proposed to her again on the morning of Valentine\u2019s Day 2014.
\n\u201cWill you marry me?\u201d he asked. And she answered, \u201cYes, ten times over.\u201d
\nZella shows off her beautiful new wedding ring proudly. After all, the first time around when they were eighteen, they purchased their rings at Hilp\u2019s Drug Store in Reno, NV.
\nThe year was 1943, and Eldred had received $20 from his father for working on his father\u2019s truck. \u201cThat was our wedding money,\u201d said Zella. Her ring cost $6.
\n\u201cThat was a lot more money then,\u201d Elred said smiling.
\nThe marriage certificate was $2. After filling it out, they went around the corner in the courthouse, where the judge married them. They were in a hurry, because Eldred was leaving in two days for training. He\u2019d be home for a short visit that March before shipping out for World War II. He was a paratrooper with the 117th Airborne Division.
\n\u201cThe next time he was home,\u201d said Zella, we had a six month old baby.
\nAccording to Zella, the pair started going out when they were fifteen years old. A friend of Zella\u2019s introduced them. Eldred was a year older, and was already at Loyalton High School. Zella was in eighth grade. \u201cIf I had it to do over again, I would,\u201d said Zella. \u201cDivorce was never in our vocabulary.\u201d
\nZella just returned from being cared for at a hospital in Reno. Her family wanted to get her back to EPHC and close to home. She was so glad to be back, she said, \u201cIt\u2019s like old home week. [Eldred] was in here last year in January.\u201d To top things off, Zella gets to go home today. Valentine\u2019s Day will never be just another day again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valentine\u2019s Day \u201cwas just another day,\u201d said Zella Marie Coggin, a patient at Eastern Plumas Health Care\u2019s Portola hospital. That is, until Eldred, her husband of seventy years, proposed to her again on the morning of Valentine\u2019s Day 2014. \u201cWill you marry me?\u201d he asked. And she answered, \u201cYes, ten times over.\u201d Zella shows off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}