MARRIED 71 YEARS

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1940, Page 6

MARRIED 71 YEARS

SYDNEY COUPLE’S RECORD. SYDNEY, August 10. Ninety-years-old Adam Vallance and 94-years-old Mary Vallance, living in a Sydney suburb, this week celebrated the seventy.-first anniversary of their marriage l , receiving, among other congratulatory messages, one from th e King and Queen. The message from Buckingham Palace read: “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 nobsmoker all his life, still preaches occasionally at a Congregational Church. He is an expert cabinetmaker, though blind for 30 years. Ho 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 still has all her faciaties, does her own housework, and reads the newspapers to her husband. “Mary and I seem to have, lived our life too quickly,” was Mr ValJance’s comment to a newspaper reporter on his wedding anniveVsary. Mrs Vallance’s was: “Adam’s a wonderful husband.”

Of their eight children, four are still living, and there ar e eleven grand-children and six great-grand-children.