Vet ties knot — at the tender age of 89
Staff photo by Mary Kemper
Newlyweds Fred and Pat Quackenbush take a break at their home in the Cascades of St. Lucie West June 25.
Staff Writer
ST. LUCIE WEST — Fred R. Quackenbush, a World War II veteran who lives at the Cascades of St. Lucie West, loves to play tennis, walk and swim most days. He plays a mean sax, and he also sings many evenings.
Violet Patricia “Pat” Chesworth — now Pat Quackenbush — also a resident of the Cascades — is a talented soloist. Together, she and Fred hit the karaoke stages all around St. Lucie County.
With a birthday since the wedding he’s now 90, she’s 85. Proof that it’s never too late to find love — and a kindred spirit.
“We have a lot of things in common,” Pat, who comes from a family with a lot of military service, said June 25 in a chat at the newlyweds’ home.
Indeed, they begin tangents for each other, and finish each other’s sentences.
Both of them are musical, both wound up in Florida, and they even both had black dogs named “Sam” at one time.
So, after so many years, however did they meet?
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