When William Dave Bryant and Lillious Phelps Bryant were married on November 30, 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt was into his second term and Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson had just replaced A. B. “Happy” Chandler as Kentucky’s Governor.
The couple has been married 73 years. “He said it was just like yesterday,” said their daughter, Patsy Brown, as family sat with mom and dad and talked Saturday morning at the home of Patsy’s brother, M. D. Bryant in North Butler.