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Mr and Mrs Fred Patt, of 2 Buckgrove Cottages, St Giles-in-the-Wood

received congratulations from Mr E W Turner, also of St Giles, and chairman of Torrington Rural Council, on their diamond wedding anniversary last Friday.

15.4.1965 St Giles diamond wedding

When Mr Patt, who was born at Langridge Ford, left school at the age of 11, his first job was cracking stones, but most of his working life was spent as a farm labourer being employed by the late Mr Laurence Hookway, of Town Tenement, St Giles, and later by Mr Hookway’s son, Mr R L Hookway.

He is still very active and his main hobby is gardening.

Mrs Patt, a native of High Bickington, also worked on a farm before her marriage.

Both are 80. Of their five daughters and two sons, all survive except a daughter, Esther (21), who died in 1942 while serving in the ATS. There are nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Bouquets were presented to the couple by Mr Turner and by Mrs R L Hookway, of Town Tenement.

Gazette article dated 15 April 1965

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