After more than 60 years of selling jewelry and memories, a staple of downtown Glens Falls will close after the holiday season. Our Matt Hunter has the story.

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – On the surface, Debra Vales and Chris Scoville are in the jewelry business, but deep downm the Glens Falls couple knows they're really selling precious moments.

"It has happened over and over again -- people will come in with their great-grandmother's engagement ring or their great-grandmother's pendant," Vales said Wednesday. "At the end of the day, just to know that young lady is going to get married with that pendant and it made her day, it’s very satisfying.”

"We get a lot of ‘goosebumps’ moments here,” Scoville said.

In 1952, Scoville's parents opened Scoville Jewelers not far from the current location at the corner of Glen and Ridge streets.

"When I watched my parents work the business and never take a vacation and were obsessed with everything that was going on in the business, it did not look like a lot of fun,” Scoville said. “It wasn't something that I aspired to do."

That feeling of apprehension quickly vanished when Scoville had to help them run the store in a pinch in the 1970s.

"I found that we were actually helping people every day dealing with problems, saying 'I love you' and expressing their emotions with jewelry, and it seemed like a great fit and I loved it," Scoville said.

Thirty-one years after they bought the business from his parents, the couple will retire and close the doors for good after the upcoming holiday season.

"It's hard; it's so hard,” Vales said. “It is bittersweet, but Chris says we are not getting any younger."

With a wave of new business activity downtown, Scoville is certain they'll find a new tenant before they leave.

"I think next year is going to be the best year ever for Glens Falls,” Scoville said.

“We are leaving on a high. We are leaving on a high note, and that feels good," Vales said.

Planning to spend the next year traveling, they're set to say goodbye after more than 60 years of being in business: a business that's about much more than diamonds and jewels.

"They hate to see us go, but they recognize that we have worked really hard and it is time for us to retire," Scoville said.

"I hug and kiss most everyone that comes in the door, and I am going to miss them,” Vales said.