BJ newsroom retiree Tom Moore, king of the goddammits during his Ol’ Blue Walls time, and Dot are celebrating their 68^th wedding anniversary.

You read that right:

SIXTY EIGHT YEARS !!!

Richmond, Virginia native Tom went from Bluefield, West Virginia, birthplace of John S. Knight, to the BJ after witnessing the demise of three Ohio newspapers (not his fault in any of the times).

But his marriage to Dot has been solidly on track for three score and eight years.

In retirement Tom has been a conductor on the Cuyahoga Valley Park Scenic Railroad.

Tom was adopted by Spotswood and Virgina Moore in Tazewell, Virginia, just across the border from Bluefield. Tom and Dot have four children, including three daughters who were copygirls at the BJ.

That would be Amy Moore, Tom and Dot's youngest daughter; Caroline Jean Krack, their oldest daughter, who lives in Minnesota; Katherine Ann Moore, who lives in Cuyahoga Falls, after retiring from the Environmental Protection Agency; and Tom's son, also named Tom.

Tom's 41-year newspaper career was on the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Zanesville News (now defunct), Lorain Journal, Columbus Citizen-Columbus Citizen Journal (both defunct) and the BJ. Plus four years part-time in the Ohio State Patrol headquarters in Columbus, editing the patrol's magazine, The Flying Wheel.