Double diamond milestone for Waimate's Don and Gwyn Johns
“We rub along,” he said. Gwyn, now 98, first met her husband to be when she was nannying her brother’s children in Waimate and Don lived around the corner. The couple’s youngest daughter Donette Fargher said the family story is that they met on the street corner. Supplied Don and Gwen Johns married at Chalmers Church in Timaru on February 16, 1946. They kept in touch when Don served as a jeep driver in North Africa and Italy during the war while Gwyn was in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) feeding personnel at the Wigram Air Force base in Christchurch. They became en...
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