Published Date:
19 March 2010
A COUPLE who met on a blind date celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.
John Mitchell, 85, met his wife, Sheila, 82, on a blind date in a park in Sunderland in 1948 after a mutual friend set them up together.
Sheila, who is originally from South Shields, and John, from Wingate, then embarked on a whirlwind romance and eventually got engaged when John proposed outside a jewellers shop.
Sheila said: "We were looking into the window of a jewellers and John turned to me and said that we should go inside and get one."
The couple then married on March 18, 1950 at a Presbyterian church in South Shields and went on to have two children, Linda Marshall, 58, who now lives in York, and John, 54, who lives in Trimdon.
When asked what the secret to a long and happy marriage was, Sheila, who lives with John in Wingate, replied: "You have got to be patient with one anothe
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Last Updated:
19 March 2010 10:21 AM
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