A few weeks after his arrival there in the summer of 1960, he proposed to Ihlamur, as he always called her, even after she took his name and dropped hers, and they got married in Jackson in November 1960, remaining married for fifty-five years (1960–2015) until his death at age eighty-six. بعد أسابيع قليلة من وصوله إلى هناك في صيف عام 1960، تقدم إلى إهلامور ، وتزوجا في جاكسون في نوفمبر 1960، لمدة دامت خمس وخمسون سنة (1960-2015) حتى وفاته في سن السادسة والثمانين.