Summary The Journal News reports Duranord Veillard turned 108 on Saturday.
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — A husband and wife thought to be one of the oldest married couples in New York have celebrated their birthdays — and their combined ages will be 212.
The Journal News reports Duranord Veillard turned 108 on Saturday. His wife, Jeanne Veillard, won t turn 105 until May.
The couple celebrated Saturday at the Spring Valley home they share with their daughter.
Veillard is a native of Haiti who was a judge there.
He and his wife moved to the United States in 1968, raising five children while he worked as a hospital laboratory technician.
Though nearly blind and hard of hearing, Veillard still cracks jokes in Creole and does push-ups after getting up before dawn.
The Veillards have been married 82 years.
