Timaru couple to celebrate 70th wedding anniversary
Dawn said she had liked the look of Alan. The pair started talking marriage early on and opened a joint bank account which they put half a crown in every week. Supplied Dawn and Alan Williams on their wedding day in Timaru on December 23, 1950. By the time they married at the ages of 21 and 22, they had enough money to buy a section in Kiwi Dr. Dawn’s father told Alan he could only have his daughter's hand in marriage if he built a house, which he did. The couple remained in the home where they brought up their four children, three boys and a girl, until they moved to Margaret Wilson R...