June 28, 2019 Issue

Celebrating 76 Years Together
by Bonnie Beers
On June 10, 1943, Alice Hunt
Burr married Stanley Hart Brittingham
in Fairfield, Connecticut.
On June 14, 2019, they
celebrated their 76 th wedding anniversary
with over 50 old friends, new friends, and
family who gathered at Riviera Senior
Living in Holly Hill for an afternoon of
music and memories.
It all started at Roger Ludlowe High
School in Fairfield, Connecticut when Alice
and Stan began dating during their junior
year. Stan explained, “We always sat alphabetically
in class so Brittingham came just
before Burr. There turned out not to be anybody
in between, so I always sat in front of
Alice in classes that we had together.”
By senior year they were named Class
Lovers in their high school yearbook.
After high school, Alice attended nursing
school at Columbia Presbyterian School
of Nursing and Stan received an appointment
to the United States Naval Academy.
The wedding took place soon after Stan’s
graduation in 1943. Because of the war,
they had to collect sugar ration cards from
friends and family in order to bake the
wedding cake, which was fancy but small!
They moved often while Stan was in
the Navy, but settled in Daytona Beach in
1966, after his retirement. Stan began a
second career teaching at Daytona Beach
Junior College and Alice resumed nursing,
as a Red Cross nurse, having paused
to raise their three daughters. Square dancing,
as Alice says, “kept them physically
and mentally fit!”
Retired for a 2 nd time, Alice and Stan set
out to travel, on five around-the-world
cruises, in addition to assorted side trips in
their beloved RV. In 2013, they organized
an Alaskan cruise attended by their 3
daughters with their husbands, 7 grandchildren,
and 6 great-grandchildren (which
now number 8, the eighth born last year on
Stan’s 96 th birthday). They celebrated their
75 th anniversary last year in Boone, North
Carolina with all but the West Coast and
New Zealand family members.
Daughter Susan Marlowe, joined the anniversary
celebration at Riviera, where Alice
and Britt have lived since spring of 2017.
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