Diamond wedding celebration for Oakes couple

Jun 22 2009 by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Diamond wedding celebration for Oakes couple

AN OAKES couple celebrated their diamond wedding with a party for 100 people.

Joan Morris, nee Fuller, married Sydney Morris at Marsden Congregational Church on June 18 1949.

They had met two years earlier at a dance at Marsden Mechanics Hall.

After exchanging vows they held a reception at the village’s British Legion and enjoyed a honeymoon to Southport.

Mr Morris said it rained every day for six weeks after they married.

The couple have two children, Clive and Carol, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mr Morris, 82, worked in Stocksbridge, Sheffield then as a draughtsman and later technical director for a Slaithwaite engineers before he retired after 60 years.

His wife, 81, worked in a shop in Marsden before having children.

The couple celebrated their diamond anniversary with a celebration for up to 100 people at their Oakes home.

Asked what a secret to a happy marriage is, Mr Morris replied: “I would always say being tolerant of each other.

“And saying yes when she asks me to do something,” he joked.