DALLAS - Back in high school, in the 1970s, someone dared Janice to run up and kiss Robert Beecham. Decades later, the DeSoto, Texas couple are still married and happily in love, with their 46th wedding anniversary and Janice’s birthday having taken place April 15 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.But even before the two contracted COVID-19, they had their fair share of health struggles, which strangely coincided with their anniversary date.
Beecham said that he had suffered strokes in 2014 and 2016, right around their anniversary for those years.Janice, though, survived breast cancer in 1985, and defeated both breast and uterine cancer in 2020, Robert says.While Robert and Janice were able to be by each other’s sides during those.