June Malicote was born on July 13, 1922, while her husband, Hubert Malicote, was born 10 days later, on July 23, 1922.
Family, friends, neighbors and church members joined the couple on Friday, July 15, at the Eaton Road Church of God in Hamilton, Ohio, where a joint birthday party was held from 4 to 7 p.m.
Roughly 130 guests stopped by to celebrate with husband and wife.
Hubert told Fox News Digital, “We just kind of live by the day and all of a sudden we’re 100 years old.”
The longtime couple first met at the Eaton Road Church of God in 1941, which was under a different name at the time.
It was in September of that year that they attended a church revival with their respective friends.
In the following weeks they would sit together at church. They dated for a year before Hubert enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II.
He did his training at the Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and later went to Newport, Rhode Island, for five months of torpedo school.
June stuck by his side and supported the war effort by building war goods at a machinery company in Ohio.
Hubert said, “Time was going fast. We needed to make a decision about what to do,” “We decided it was time to get married.”
Hubert and June were married June 8, 1943.