The couple then spent their entire working life either side of Horsham Town Hall in Wilson Street.
“When we left school, we started work at the same time. Maurie started at The Horsham Times on the Sunday, and I started at Brown and Proudfoot solicitors on the Monday,” Mrs Lawson said.
The Rev Howard Kettle married the pair at Horsham’s Wesley Methodist Church before the newlyweds honeymooned in Adelaide.
The couple then had four children and raised three and now have seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Sticking to a working-life formula, the couple retired in the same week in 1998.
Mr Lawson said the pair achieved two of three major retirement goals. “We went to China and Japan but never made it to Europe,” he said.
Mrs Lawson added: “We were going to do wonderful things, then I broke my leg, then Maurie broke his leg, and then he was in hospital for a couple of operations and that’s where the past 20 years have gone.”
The couple agreed that success to having a long marriage was to have mutual interests and to understand each other.
“We did everything – we rode motorbikes, went fishing and played tennis together,” Mrs Lawson said.
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