Magazine for July 2009
GOLDEN WEDDING
Gerald and Meriel Brough will celebrate 50 years of marriage on Saturday August 21st, and hope that as many as possible will be able to join them at their Service of Thanksgiving at 12 noon.
(See this article that appeared in the Leamington Courier recently!)
Gerald and Meriel met when they were both members of a team for a mission in Tonbridge, Kent. Then the following year Gerald, a student at Cambridge met up again with Meriel, now back at home in Cambridge doing a Dip. Ed. and living there with her parents. Gerald was a lucky man. not only renewing his acquaintance with Meriel, but also getting invited to many a delicious Sunday lunch at her parents’ house! That would be known nowadays as a win/win situation!
They were married while Gerald was in his first curacy in Westgate near Margate. After a second curacy in New Addington (Croydon) they moved to Warwickshire where Gerald’s first living was in Mancetter. They came to live in Leamington when Gerald retired from the parishes of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Frankton and Bourton. Meriel taught for many years at Kingsley School.
They have two children, Chris and Katharine, and three grandchildren, Elizabeth and David, who live in Birmingham, and Joseph who lives in Surrey.
Meriel and Gerald have been, and are still a great blessing to St. Mark’s. We can’t imagine what we would have done without their wisdom and caring friendship, and so with love and gratitude we pray for their continuing health and happiness.