Who was Dolore “Dee Dee” Jackson married to before her death?”
First, he had to figure out which gal was in his arms. Charlie Coles was talking about the night he met Dolores “Dee Dee” Jackson and her sister, Darla, at a dance in Oxford in the early 1960s. “I danced with her and next, it turns out, I danced with her sister,” the Miami University basketball coach was saying. “I thought there was just one of them ’cause they looked alike. So the next dance I resume my conversation (with Dee Dee) and she didn’t have a clue what I was talking about … I thought she was playing a joke.” He figured it out and soon the girl in his arms was also in his heart. Because of it, Charlie and Dee Dee — who’ll be married 45 years in October — will be part of a world-record attempt on the Miami University campus Saturday, June 20. As part of the school’s bicentennial celebration, the alumni association is hoping to land a spot in the “Guinness Book of World Records” for the most couples renewing their wedding vows at one time. The mark was set last year in Pittsb