DEAN AND GLADYS BEATY AFTER 45 YEARS By Dean Beaty your adoring husband 8/15/09 The greatest joy and treasure that has come into my life. Is when I met my sweetheart and took you for my wife. Now forty-five years later I love you now as then. If I had the chance once more, I would do it all again. It doesn’t mean that marriage is smooth as velveteen. But it really helps a lot when you make your wife your queen. The years have passed so swiftly, it seems like yesterday, That we married in Dakota and started on life’s way. Forty-five years of memories could fill a giant book. I’m glad when I purposed you didn’t take a second look. It’s too late to start all over, so I figure I have won. God tied a sailor’s knot when He made us into one. Time has changed our figures and the color of our hair. But I never have to worry if tomorrow you’ll be there. Your loyalty is matchless and of course it has to be, To last for forty-five years with a rotten egg like me. That’s why all my devotion belongs to you alone. With all my heart I love you and I’m thankful you’re my own. Forty-five years from now we’ll enjoy eternity. For nothing in this world will take your love from me.