{"id":56840,"date":"2014-04-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/56840\/celebrating-a-lifetime-of-love\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T08:38:12","slug":"celebrating-a-lifetime-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/04\/09\/celebrating-a-lifetime-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating a lifetime of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-standing Sunnyridge residents Steve and Jean Meyer have just celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The couple was married on March 28, 1964, in the Germiston Full Gospel Church.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They met while holidaying in Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>They both happened to be sitting on bench number 3 in the town and started chatting.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The chat led to an exchange of numbers and so their love progressed.<\/p>\n<p>Steve grew up in Germiston and Jean in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>They have lived in Sunnyridge for most of their married life.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56841\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/14GCNGENERALWEDDMH2_512388351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56841\" alt=\"The couple's wedding photograph appeared in the April 17, 1964 edition of the Germiston Advocate en Germiston Koerant.  \" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/14GCNGENERALWEDDMH2_512388351-423x317.jpg\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/14GCNGENERALWEDDMH2_512388351-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/14GCNGENERALWEDDMH2_512388351-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/14GCNGENERALWEDDMH2_512388351.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The couple&#8217;s wedding photograph appeared in the April 17, 1964 edition of the Germiston Advocate en Germiston Koerant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The couple has four children, Deborah Claassen (52), Stephne Jones (46), Eleanor de Bruin (33) and Daniel (45).<\/p>\n<p>They also have four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and are excitedly awaiting the birth of their third great-grandchild soon.<\/p>\n<p>Both Steve and Jean are very active in the church and Jean loves to look after children.<\/p>\n<p>They celebrated their anniversary with a &#8220;celebration weekend&#8221; organised by Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have never eaten so much in our lives,&#8221; Jean said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a wonderful weekend, spent with family and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steve jokingly said that the secret to a happy 50 years is to say &#8220;Yes, dear,&#8221; often.<\/p>\n<p>However, they both agree that you must put God first, work hard at your marriage and take it one day at a time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d86864571193079b42727c29db883c40'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunnyridge couple spends 50 wonderful years together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":57163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[3264,979,2673,2734,1380,2032],"class_list":["post-56840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-50-years","tag-germiston","tag-married","tag-melissa-hart","tag-sunnyridge","tag-wedding"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["50 years","germiston","Married","melissa hart","sunnyridge","wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}