Two Tinley Park Lovebirds Reflect on Their 70-Year Marriage

Bill and Lorraine Burke don't understand why they're getting so much attention.

After all, their marriage is just like any other. Or is it?

Today marks the couple's 70th wedding anniversary. They chatted about the occasion with the Sun-Times Media before celebrating during their favorite mass Sunday at .

“We’re just an ordinary couple,” Bill, 91, told Reporter Donna Vickroy.

The two go out to dinner every Sunday and still sleep in the same bed, they said. They talked about the tough times in the early 1940s amidst a struggling economy and pending war, and of Bill shipping off to the Army when Lorraine was pregnant with their first of 10 children.

They also recalled their adventures—hot air ballooning while in their 70s and whitewater rafting in their 80s.

Today, the two have 32 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren, according to the story. They lost one of their sons in 2006 to a heart attack, they said, equating the time to the saddest in their lives.

Of course, they've had their ups and downs. But they're still just as in love as they were back in '41, when Bill popped the question while sitting in the car beside his dear Lorraine.

The Sun-Times Media reports:

“I said to her that war was coming and if they had a draft, I’d have to go,” Bill said. “Then I asked her if we should get married before I left or after I got back.”

He was a bit nervous but to his surprise, “she looked at me and said we should get married right now,” he chuckled.

A few months later they were wed at St. Lucy’s Church on Chicago’s West Side.

The two have had a good life together, they said, and embrace their days with a big sense of humor.

"We would do it all over again,” Bill said.