Husband Carries Through on Plan to Buy 50th Anniversary Billboard, Despite Wife's Death

'I wanted her to have some sort of recognition'

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Well, any guy who fancies himself a romantic can pack it up today, because Milwaukee resident Joe Mikolajczak (aka the world's best husband) has commemorated what would have been his 50th wedding anniversary with a billboard dedicated to his late wife, Marylou. He actually began working on the sign more than a year ago while she was still alive, and when she passed away in April, he decided not to call it off. Luckily, before she died, he was able to at least tell her what he had planned.

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