Cranbourne South couple Walter and Winifred Munroe celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Saturday. 74177 Picture: Stewart Chambers
By Bridget Cook
A LITTLE bit of give and take is the key to a long lasting marriage according to one Cranbourne South couple.
And Walter and Winifred Munroe would know better than most after they celebrated 65 years of marriage on Saturday along with their family.
“We’ve had a very enjoyable life, both working wise and pleasure wise,” Mr Munroe said.
“I think the main key to a long lasting marriage is accepting that sometimes you have to give a little and sometimes take a little.”
Mr Munroe said he had shared a great life with his wife.
“We have been on a lot of holidays, which have been most enjoyable,” he said.
“She’s always looked after me, I don’t know how she has put up with me for so long.”
The couple met at a local dance at the Mulgrave hall in 1946.
They would attend the dance every Saturday night and Mrs Munroe would ride her push bike to it and then Mr Munroe would put her bike in the back of his truck and drop her home at the end of the night.
They married on 26 November the same year at the Mulgrave church in front of a few members of their families.
After they went back to Mr Munroe’s family home for a snack, they went to the cinema together.
The couple first lived together at Mr Munroe’s family home in Carinda where they had their first child, Faye.
They bought a farm at South Morang farming dressed poultry for five years before returning back to Carinda to help out on a piggery where they had two more children – Heather and Roger.
In 1961, the couple purchased 100 acres on Pearcedale Road, Cranbourne South, where they had pigs.
The couple still reside on that property today and have been active members of the local community with Mr Munroe being a member of the Rotary Club of Cranbourne and of the Cranbourne Masonic Lodge.
Mrs Munroe was president of the Cranbourne South Primary School Mothers’ Club and Mr Munroe was president of the school committee.
They have both been keen on sport. Mr Munroe played football in his earlier years and was also a keen golfer.
Mrs Munroe enjoyed playing golf at Montuna Golf Club, had a team in 10-pin bowling and joined the Cranbourne Bowls Club in 1969 and eventually convinced her husband to as well.
The couple have enjoyed many overseas trips together and travelling all around Australia every winter.
Since 1997 they have enjoyed staying home with their children, eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
