MARRIED 71 YEARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 7

MARRIED 71 YEARS

A SYDNEY COUPLE

BOTH IN THE NINETIES

(By Trans-Tasman Air Mail, from "The Post's" Representative.) . SYDNEY, August 10. Adam Vallance, aged 90, and his wife, Mary Vallance, aged 94, living in a Sydney suburb, this week celebrated the seventy-first anniversary of their marriage. Among other congratulatory ; messages was one from the King andj [Queen from Buckingham Palace, readiing: "The King and Queen send you their hearty congratulations and good wishes 'on the celebration of your seventy-first wedding day anniversary." Mr. Vallance, a teetotaller and nonsmoker all his life, still preaches occasionally at a Congregational church. He is an.expert cabinetmaker, though! blind for 30 years. He and Mrs. Vallance were born in Warwickshire, England, and they conducted stores after their arrival in Sydney, The Vallance Stores at Sutherland are now carried on by a grandson. Mrs.. Vallance has all her faculties, does her own housework, and reads the newspapers to her husband. "Mary and I seem to have lived our life too quickly," was Mr. Variance's comment to a newspaper report. Mrs. Vali lance's was: "Adam's a wonderful husI band."

Of their eight children, four are still living. There are eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.