Kim Potter and John C. Webster were married October 16 in a private ceremony officiated by Reverend Barbara (Bunny) Starr in Great Cacapon, West Virginia.
Partners for the last 28 years and residents of Morgan County since 1990, the couple celebrated West Virginia’s recent ruling on same-sex marriages after having seen a news report about the ruling the day before in the local newspaper.
It was the first same sex marriage in Morgan County, West Virginia.
When asked where they will spend their honeymoon, Webster laughed and said “we’ve been together for 28 years.”
Webster said that the first thing he was asked at the Morgan County Courthouse was whether he and Potter have had counseling.
Webster laughed and said — “”we’ve been together for 28 years.”
Potter, age 62, is a son of the late Julie Garrett and Herbert Potter of Thornbury, England.
Potter graduated from Thornbury schools and continued his education at the Camberwell School of the Arts and Crafts in London.
John Webster and Kim Potter at the Panorama at the Peak (Photo credit: Patti Miller)
He then came to the United States to pursue a career in hand weaving and garment design. Potter continues to show his work at numerous art and crafts shows throughout the northeast.
Webster, age 67, is a son of the late Virginia Bradford and Emory Burns Webster of Statesville, North Carolina.
Webster graduated from Statesville Senior High school, earned his Bachelor of Science degree from North Carolina State University, continued his education as a Cornell University Graduate Fellow in the Department of Plant Breeding and as a Longwood Gardens Graduate Fellow at the University of Delaware.
Webster retired in 1994 from Garden Arts, his own garden design/build firm based in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area.