Sixty years with his lady in blue
It started with a dance and became a marriage, which has now reached a special anniversary.
John and Doreen Pike were youngsters attending a dance at Wolverhampton Civic Hall in January 1958 when John said he saw a lady in blue dancing.
He said: “I was at the dance and saw this lady in blue and thought to myself ‘I wouldn’t mind spending my life with that lady’, so I went and asked her for a dance.
“That was it after that and we started courting, with me travelling to see her in Coseley from my digs in Wolverhampton.”
That first meeting led to a marriage which has reached its 60th anniversary of the couple getting married at Roseville Methodist Church in Coseley.
John said they would be celebrating their anniversary with a meal with their children Alison and Russ and their four grandchildren, with a trip to Llandudno in October also organised.
The 88-year-old said he and 81-year-old Doreen had moved to their current home in Wombourne shortly after their marriage and had become part of the community there.
He said: “Doreen has been the organist at the Methodist church in Wombourne since the 1980s and I’ve been vice chair of the parish council.
“For work, I am a former member of the Express & Star, working in advertising, while Doreen has been in secretarial roles at Crazy Arc and Jennings Funeral Directors.”
John said the secret for them was having been together so long, they rarely had a difference of opinion.
