James and Betty Dean of Williston will celebrate their 72nd wedding anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 28.
The couple was married in Ft. Lauderdale on Aug. 28, 1944 and moved from Miami to Williston in 1959.
Mr. Dean retired from the trucking business in 1987. Mrs. Dean is a homemaker.
The couple has one son, Mike Dean, and his wife, Wanda, of Thaxton, Miss. and one daughter, Cindy Tribby, and her husband, Brian, of Gainesville.