Lois kept wondering what happened to Larry after meeting him.<\/p>\n
Four years later, when she was 18 and Larry was 24, they bumped into one another while Lois was walking with her mother to get library books.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019d improved her appearance greatly and so we got together,\u201d Larry said.<\/p>\n
Two years later, the pair were wed at Dunstall\u2019s in Napier by Reverend Claude Hyde on March 3, 1956.<\/p>\n
For their 70th anniversary, the couple fielded phone calls from friends and family around the globe and received mail from Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, Minister for Seniors Casey Costello and Napier MP Katie Nimon congratulating them on their long and happy marriage.<\/p>\n
But whose well wishes were just the first course of ovations for the couple, when a letter from King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived with felicitations for staying together for so long.<\/p>\n
The royal commendation caught the couple by surprise, as they were unaware the King and Queen sent letters for long marriages.<\/p>\n
Since they\u2019ve been married, the couple have travelled the world and had three children.<\/p>\n
They now have plenty of grandchildren and great-grandchildren scattered around the world.<\/p>\n
Larry worked on the Napier wharves until he came home one day in 1987 and decided the family was moving to \u014cp\u014dtiki a week later, where Lois would go on to become a champion lawn bowls player at the local club and Larry became the club president.<\/p>\n
The family stayed there until 2003, relocating back to Napier where they\u2019ve remained since.<\/p>\n
Both have their own secrets to making relationships and marriages last as long as theirs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve never fought \u2013 that\u2019s because I keep my mouth shut,\u201d Larry said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t changed our feelings. We just live together and muddle around, help one another. <\/p>\n
\u201cI do the washing and do a bit of cooking.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we don\u2019t go to bed at night without a kiss and a cuddle each night,\u201d Lois said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be lost without him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both said their love is just as strong as it has ever been and their time together had helped them develop telepathic-like abilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll often be looking at her, and I\u2019ll be thinking something and she\u2019ll get up and do it,\u201d Larry said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you do grow together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lois kept wondering what happened to Larry after meeting him. Four years later, when she was 18 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6203,95,50872,8414,156,71,305,9860,71157,40571,29546,2190,32573,636,3607,111,139,69,1118,90,3366,19764,1361,223,810,102,1530],"class_list":["post-334567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-6203","tag-and","tag-congratulations","tag-couple","tag-entertainment","tag-from","tag-have","tag-king","tag-lasted","tag-letter","tag-letters","tag-long","tag-mark","tag-marriage","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-queen","tag-received","tag-that","tag-the","tag-up","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}