After weeks of battling for their lives, their suffering magnified by the loss of dear friends and family members, Jackie and Stacy Stockton, 90 and 92, of Ship Bottom have persevered against COVID-19 and, miraculously, live to celebrate their 70th anniversary.
Jackie and Stacy met in the summer of 1948 at the annual Browns Mills Water Carnival. “I was with my friends from Pemberton having fun on the lake when I noticed Jackie,” Stacy recalled. “She’s hard not to notice.
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