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BY STACEY TH1DRICKS0Nat and Ivy Baldock can’t imagine their lives without one another.The Middlechurch on the Red residents have spent over seven decades together, and recently celebrated an astounding 75 years of marriage on Feb. 12.According to Pat, the secret to the couple’s success is simple but still takes a little bit of compromising.You’ve just got to think about one another and do things together, spend a lot of time together,” said Pat, who will turn97 this April.The couple first met at the municipal office in West St. Paul at a sing song over 78 years ago.Pat remembers trying to set up a slide projector so people in attendance could read the music off the wall, but Ivy was in the way.I said ‘get your head out of the way so I can start’. I guess she liked that,” Pat fondly joked.After dating for three years, the couple got married in 1924 and then had three children— two boys and a girl.Pat, who worked as a land surveyor for the provincial government, retired in 1967 so he and Ivy, who is now 93, could travel.Pat and Ivy spent 13 years travelling all over the world, including a four month world cruise, but decided to settle down in Morden in 1980 whenone of their daughter’s passed | places are for old people”.Pat and Ivy Baldock on their 75th wedding anniversaryaway.The couple’s decision to move to Morden was mostly for their grandson, who was having a hard time dealing with the death of his mother, Pat said.Just this past fall, Pat and Ivy sold their home in Morden and moved to Middlechurch on the Red, but they would not live in the personal care home adjacent to the life lease apartmentsPat insisted “those2* / ' *While the two are very lucky to have each other, the death ofboth of their daughters was difficult for them. However, theBaldocks have an enormous family of 21 grandchildren, threegreat grandchildren and threegreat-great grandchildren, mostof whom live in Manitoba.■ *■ .*Last week, Ivy underwent surgery after a fall the week before, and the prognosis looks good.
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Selkirk Journal
Selkirk, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Mar 08, 1999
Page 13
Full Page
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Sarah H.
DC, CA 04 Jun 2021
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