Charles and Glynis strike gold in their marriage
They firmly believe that what keeps a marriage together is the blending of their different characters by accepting each other as they are.
Charles and Glynis Cox Millett-Clay celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 5.
From the UK, their daughter Michelle and her husband Roy organised a surprise for the ‘golden’ couple.
They were picked up by a chauffeur and taken to a restaurant where they received a beautiful bunch of roses and a cake decorated with 50 on it.
After the most delicious meal, the chauffeur took them back home again.
They were married on a cold winter’s day in Welkom in 1971, Glynis said, and they had been childhood sweethearts who knew each other since high school.
Charles remembers that when they went on honeymoon to Scotsborough, they bought a Fiat 125 S and it cost a mere R12.50 to fill the tank.
Glynis was born in Kensington and Charles in Springs. Both of their parents moved to Welkom in the early 1950s.
When they both were in high school is when the spark ignited, Glynis recalled.
Both being good athletes, Charles held the Goldfields high jump record for three years and Glynis the Victrix Ludorum in Standard Eight (Grade 10).
After they matriculated, Charles went to work on the mines and eventually invented products for the development of underground tunnelling and Glynis worked at the SA Perm as a junior typist.
Later she was a PA in various companies.
Glynis admires that Charles is very domesticated. “He can do anything a woman does in the house,” she said.
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They firmly believe that what keeps a marriage together is the blending of their different characters by accepting each other as they are and their combined love and relationship with the Lord.
They raised two children and are proud grandparents of a granddaughter and four grandsons.
Today they keep busy by running their own company of over 30 years.
Hayley, the couple’s granddaughter, wrote: “I have spent my life watching my grandparents and how they love each other. While I was growing up they taught me valuable life lessons, and that to make a marriage last as long as theirs you must be prepared to accept each other more and more you both change over the years. I couldn’t be more proud to have such loving grandparents.”
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