"I couldn't live without him" (From This Is Wiltshire)

"I couldn't live without him"

3:00pm Thursday 16th October 2008

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SID and Rose Kember celebrated 65 years of married life together on Friday with a trip to Torquay with a group of friends.

The couple, who are both 88 and live in Hawthorn Grove, Trowbridge, met in London at a church Sunday school when they were just seven years old.

They married on October 10, 1943 in London and Mrs Kember lived in the city throughout the war while her husband served in Iceland and Burma with the RAF.

They have three children; Colin, 62, Janet, 57 and Paul, 42.

The family moved to Wiltshire in 1975 when Mr Kember’s job with Unigate moved and have been here ever since.

They are active members of the St George’s Lunch Club, at The Halve Social Centre, and help each other a lot as he is partially deaf and she is partially sighted.

Mrs Kember said: “A successful marriage is about saying thank you when you should and being patient with each other, because when you get old you get very niggly sometimes.

“He has been wonderful really, I couldn’t live without him, he’s been a wonderful husband. You either meet a good man or you don’t and I was one of the lucky ones.”

The couple have four grandchildren and one great grandaughter.

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