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Little Brown Church draws
In 2005, Calles Faye, 98, and her 101-year-old husband Pete Faye, kissed during the renewing of their wedding vows at the Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua, Iowa. More than a hundred married couples are expected to renew their vows this year during the annual reunion.
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In 2005, Calles Faye, 98, and her 101-year-old husband Pete Faye, kissed during the renewing of their wedding vows at the Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua, Iowa. More than a hundred married couples are expected to renew their vows this year during the annual reunion.

The 57th annual Marriage Reunion will be at the Little Brown Church in the Vale, near Nashua, Iowa the weekend of Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 1-2.

The church, made famous by the hymn "The Church in the Wildwood," has been the site of countless weddings. William S. Pitts wrote the hymn in 1857; the church was built in 1860-64, during the Civil War.

The reunions will include a checkers tournament, dinner, a pastors' reception, a talent competition which must include the hymn, a worship service and a renewal of wedding vows.

For information, go to www.littlebrownchurch.org.


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