Tom Brokaw Made It to 61 Years with Beauty Queen Who Proposed to Him — She Cared for Him as He Battled Cancer
Tom Brokaw and Meredith Auld started dating when they were still in school, and she steered their relationship to the next level.
Despite people thinking the couple was mismatched, she stayed with him and supported him through his cancer diagnosis.
After going into remission, Tom gave an interview where he noted some things first-time cancer patients had to be prepared for.
Meredith Auld was the reigning Miss South Dakota when she and Tom Brokaw were in a relationship, and the townspeople couldn’t understand the match.
While the people of Yankton, South Dakota, thought it was apparent why the charming man would want to date the town’s beauty queen, they wondered why Auld wasn’t dating and marrying one of the town’s most eligible bachelors like Eldon Weinstock, whom they dee...