86-Year-Old black grandmother weds longtime love, goes viral
Millie Taylor-Morrison and Harold Morrison just got married after meeting over 60 years ago.
Millie was married to her first husband for over 41 years when he died in 1992. It wasn’t until years later that she met up with Harold again. Interestingly enough, Harold had been a guest at her first wedding back in 1952.
“I used to sing in the choir and Harold attended my church,” Millie told PEOPLE. “I would be standing with the other choir members, waiting to walk out and he would come over and kiss me on the cheek before sitting down for the service.”
“Then when I got married [to my first husband], the whole church was invited and Harold was there,” she went on.
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They lost touch for years, and then, one day, Harold joined her new church, the New Beginning Faith Fellowship Ministries in Orange, New Jersey.
“I used to admire him in church,” she said. “He dressed impeccably and I admire that in a man.”
Then Harold became ill. As he recuperated, Millie and some of the other members of the congregation would visit him. That was when she offered to drive him back and forth to church. They continued to see each other even once he was fully recovered.
Then, eight years later, he fell ill again, this time to the extent that he could not live alone.
“I asked him if he wanted to live with me instead of a nursing home,” Millie says. “And he said, ‘Definitely.’”
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It took Harold a year to get better, and Millie found herself thinking, “I love him, but I can’t have him living in my house… I have granddaughters and grandsons.”
“I’m a Christian woman and I want to live a Christian life,” she said. “We decided that even though we were in our twilight years, we wanted to be pleasing in God’s eyes.”
And so, they got married this month at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Newark, New Jerseym in front of 200 witnesses.
“It was a lovely day,” Millie’s granddaughter, Khadija Elkharbibi, 28, tells PEOPLE. “This isn’t a typical story — most grandmothers don’t remarry or they give up on love. It’s amazing to see their love for each other.
“Their wedding day was beautiful and she was a sight to see. Harold was emotional, he started to weep a little.”
