Not too many couples make it to their 70th Wedding Anniversary these days but a local couple – Jack and Elaine Walter are celebrating just that on 30 September!
Jack and Elaine are both in their 90s and still live in their own home at Noosa Banks.
Both originally from Victoria, they were teenage friends and when the second world war interrupted life Jack went off to train and then serve. Elaine wrote to him through the war and they picked up their acquaintance in 1945 upon Jacks return from Japan. They married in 1950, honeymooned at the Blue Mountains as was popular at the time. Family life was in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and after successful careers in food and fashion respectively, they moved to the Noosa area in 1993. They have run successful wholesale nurseries in the Noosa area in their “retirement”. Their three adult children live in Denmark, Melbourne and here on the coast, they are grandparents and great grandparents many times over.
Always very positive people who enjoy the beauty of nature and are full of fun, it is their attitude to life and each other that have been a key to a happy and long life together.
