Diamond duo celebrate with family gathering

11:40am Saturday 6th September 2008

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TRUTHFULNESS between partners is the secret to a happy marriage according to a Stourport couple who will be toasting their diamond wedding.

Charles, 85 and Winifred Lowe, 89, first set eyes on each other 62 years ago during a dance at the Parish Rooms in Stourport.

They tied the knot two years later, at St Michael’s and All Angels Church, on September 11, 1948.

Mr Lowe, who worked at British Sugar until retirement after serving in the Second World War, said he was “pretty sure” Mrs Lowe was the one he was going to marry from the moment they met.

The couple, of Ferndale Close, went on to have a daughter and granddaughter and will be celebrating their milestone with an evening family meal.

Mrs Lowe said: “At the dance, Charles was with some friends that I knew and he asked someone who I was and they told him.

“We got together and started dancing and it went from there. The Parish Rooms was a dancing club back then.

“After we met he would pick me up and we would go there regularly together.”

The former secretary added that, as well as truthfulness, the secret to a happy marriage was always being there for one another.

Mr Lowe said they had managed to keep their marriage strong by never going to bed on an argument.