By Victoria Stone-Meadows
A Cranbourne couple have reached a diamond milestone and celebrated 60 years of marriage together.
Bill and Ruth Legg have shared many years and many memories together – but it all started back in a dance hall in Malvern in 1955.
“He was good dancer and that was something I insisted on in a partner; they had to be a good dancer,” Mrs Legg said.
“If they weren’t any good I would shuffle off the next time they asked me but Bill was a very good dancer.”
After dating for about 18 months, the couple were engaging in a non-nonsense way that would come to be the defining theme of their marriage.
“We had been going out for some tie and went to my aunt’s place for dinner and my aunty said “If you two are thinking of getting engaged, I know a jeweller.”,” Mrs Legg said.
“So we had to wait till the store opened and we went and bought a ring.”
The couple were married in 1957 and have raised two children in Sandra and Malcolm, and now have seven grandchildren and almost 11 great grandchildren.
They passed on their advice to other couples and shared their secret for a long and happy marriage.
“The age old cliche – tolerance,” Mr Legg said.
“It is a cliche, there is no other word for it, to just understand one another – not a secret really, is it?”
“It is so important to be able to understand what the other person is thinking, but sometimes it’s difficult,” Mrs Legg said.
The couple were able to celebrate their 60th year together on Easter Saturday.
