Smith: 75 years roll by for sweethearts who met while skating in Healdsburg

Seventy-five busy and for the most part joyful years have passed since Charles and Rose Hayes married in Sonoma County in 1942.

The Santa Rosans celebrated a rare, three-quarters of a century anniversary Saturday with about 80 family members and friends. On Monday, the 'Today' show shared a photo of them with the world.

Both Charles and Rose are 94 - so they were 19 when they tied the knot. They'd met at a roller rink in Healdsburg.

Charles served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific during World War II and afterward worked more than 40 years for Pacific Bell.

At the age of 82, he was volunteering at a two-story Habitat for Humanity construction project in Santa Rosa and managed to fall off the roof. At the hospital, a doctor amazed to discover that he suffered only minor bruising told him, “Fly away, Superman.”

Rose was a homemaker and mother to the four children who brought her and Charles seven grandchildren and eight great-grandkids.

Today, Charles deals with dementia and Rose in hospice care, but they're gratefully together.