Rosalyn Engelman met her future husband, Irwin, in 1953 when the two were set up by a mutual friend in the Bronx. He was 19, she was 15. “I was immediately smitten,” she says. “He looked like a movie star.”
The two went out for a movie and a milkshake and talked late into the night. Engelman knew she was in love right away.
After dating for three years, the Engelmans married in November 1956. In their 70 years of marriage, they’ve supported each other through careers in art and business, raised two children, welcomed grandchildren, moved from upstate New York to Connecticut, and traveled all over Europe and Asia.
As they’ve gotten older, they’ve also stood by each other through hardships like cancer.
They now live at the Apsley, an assisted living facility in Manhattan.
