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Tom and Maureen Hickey offer wedding advice as they mark this amazing milestone.
Maureen Kane and Tom Hickey, who will both turn 99 this year, grew up a block apart from each other in Richmond Hill, Queens.
They were a year apart at Holy Child Jesus Elementary School, and their families were Holy Child parishioners.
Maureen remembers playing marbles, jumping rope and playing stickball in the neighborhood. “I wouldn’t change my growing up years or town for anywhere else,” she told the Register.
At 8 years old, Tom stopped by Maureen’s house after she’d had an appendectomy. He brought a small gift, an address book. They still joke that it was something he found in his mother’s drawer, with addresses already in it.
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Maureen Kane and Tom Hickey, who will both turn 99 this year, grew up a block apart from each other in Richmond Hill, Queens.
They were a year apart at Holy Child Jesus Elementary School, and their families were Holy Child parishioners.
Maureen remembers playing marbles, jumping rope and playing stickball in the neighborhood. “I wouldn’t change my growing up years or town for anywhere else,” she told the Register.
At 8 years old, Tom stopped by Maureen’s house after she’d had an appendectomy. He brought a small gift, an address book. They still joke that it was something he found in his mother’s drawer, with addresses already in it.
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Childhood Neighbors, Lifelong Love: Near 99-Year-Old Couple Celebrates 75 Years of Marriage
Tom and Maureen Hickey offer wedding advice as they mark this amazing milestone.
