For years I have watched this beautiful couple in our local town of Cooranbong.. They are always together, holding hands, riding on a two person mobility scooter, or walking together. They are always wearing matching clothes & accessories, & I think they are just the most adorable couple ever. They are still so in love, & spent the whole shoot praising each other. They had Olives original head piece from their wedding, and Lyndon’s bow tie.
Lyndon and Ollie were both singers with amazing voices. Unfortunately a routine removal of a polyp on his voice chord in 1984 with an unskilled surgeon, left him permanently damaged. He now struggles to talk and gets very exhausted from it.
LYNDON - Born near Temora in the Riverina NSW 1932 during the Great Depression. Grew up on the farm with parents. His father built the house out of local timber. Lyndon had 4 other siblings. He was in the middle of two older girls, one younger brother and a younger sister. (All deceased except for my youngest sister) Attended a little country school during the war and looked forward to the trainee pilots in the Tiger Moths who would fly over our school and throw down little parachutes with lollies attached! (Temora had a training airport during the war)
I went to Avondale College in 1951 where I met the girl of my dreams and instantly fell in love. (Never recovered ever since). Worked at many occupations, included having my own business but eventually received a call into ministry and spent the rest of my life as a clergyman serving in Australian and New Zealand.
OLIVE - (usually called Ollie) Born in 1935 near Bendigo and grew up in Warburton and Melbourne. Privileged to attend a church school at
Hawthorn in Melbourne. Moved to Cooranbong about age 12 and attended High School at Avondale. Her parents had a less than happy separation prior to the move, & her Father took Her, & 3 year old brother with him. Olive was expected to raise her brother. She left school at age 15 to help her father with additional income. Worked in the Sanitarium Health Food Factory where she met Lyndon. Also badly bitten by the Love Bug and married at age 18 in 1953 (October 20) Which will make us husband and wife for the last seventy years!
FAMILY - Three sons; Alvin, Darrel and Glen. Alvin a clergyman; Darrel a manager in the Asia-Pacific for a big American firm. Glen is a specialist nurse in charge of an ICU on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
We have nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Our sport (now retired) - Marathon running.
Ollie - 10 marathons; Lyndon - 19 marathons.
Ollie won the age-division Marathon championship in New Zealand in 1984
Hobbies - Photography - Both have won awards. Both are avid readers. Lyndon has written three books. One – An Autobiography; Two - Marvels and Mysteries of the World of Nature (Illustrated) Three – a book of poetry.
Ollie – a fantastic cook and a fabulous wife!
