James and Julia Ambrose of Ligonier Township have just celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary, a milestone the couple marked together after a lifetime that began at the altar of the First Methodist Church of Ligonier in 1951. Now both in their 90s, the Ambroses have spent decades building a family that has grown far beyond the two sons and two daughters they raised.
Their Diamond Anniversary was the subject of a recent feature by CBS News Pittsburgh, which reported that James and Julia Ambrose of Ligonier Township celebrated their Diamond Anniversary together. The outlet's reporting detailed just how far the family tree has spread since that wedding day more than seven decades ago.
A Family That Keeps Growing
Together, they raised two sons and two daughters, and today, the Ambrose family includes 12 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and now, two great-great-grandchildren, according to the same CBS News Pittsburgh report. It's a sprawling legacy for a couple who started out as newlyweds in a small-town church decades before most of those descendants were even born.
The station's report also captured what the Ambroses say has kept their marriage intact for 75 years. The couple, now both in their 90s, says that they have never gone to bed angry — a simple rule that has apparently carried them through three-quarters of a century together.
A Milestone Noted Back Home
The couple's anniversary had also been flagged locally well ahead of the CBS feature. A notice in the Latrobe Bulletin stated that James “Jim” and Julia (Graham) Ambrose of Ligonier Township would celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 10, and confirmed the pair were married in the First Methodist Church of Ligonier in 1951. The notice did not specify the year tied to that May 10 celebration date.
CBS News Pittsburgh's video coverage, titled Couple recreates their wedding pictures to celebrate 75 years of marriage, frames the milestone around the Ambroses revisiting some of their most important memories from the life they've built since that church wedding. The piece was reported for the station by Ricky Sayer of KDKA.
