Benny and June Willingham on their wedding day in September 1956. - McKenna Dunworth/Standard-Radio Post The day that Benny and June Willingham got married, the wedding officiant said he had never seen so many people packed into the rural Haile Baptist Church.

He told them that he felt like he needed to preach a sermon.

The two teenagers had met more than a year before, back when they were just classmates in Borger.