Timeless love for Macleods
The Macleods started dating when they were only 16 years old, and last week they celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary.
WHEN Don and Pam Macleod started dating at the tender age of 16, people thought that they were too young. However, the couple disproved all the doubts when they celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary on Saturday last week.
The couple met straight out of high school, at the home of Pam’s great-aunt.
Don was boarding at her aunt’s home, while studying at the University of Natal when Pam was invited over for dinner, and the two immediately connected.
They starting dating straight away, however, only married five years later. They exchanged vows on 16 April, 1949.
The Macleods moved to Durban North in 1950 and settled at the Birdsongs Retirement Home in uMgeni Park in 2010. They have four children and nine grandchildren. Don worked as a city engineer while Pam took on the roles of housewife and mother.
When asked what he loved most about his wife, Don said, “Her kind and thoughtful ways.”
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