KNYSNA NEWS - Reverend Winston Dickerson and his wife, Lorna, long-time residents of Knysna, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last week.

They had a lunch party on the actual date of their anniversary, Thursday 30 May.

The Dickersons lived in Knysna for 15 years before relocating to Fraaiuitsig, which is east of Mossel Bay, in 2022.

In Knysna, Winston was involved in the community, volunteering his services as a retired Anglican priest, and Lorna helped at the Friday morning knitting and sewing group at Leisure Gardens Senior Citizens' Home for 15 years.

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During his years in Knysna, Winston ran 12 Selwyn Hughes Biblical Counselling Courses. He and Lorna were counsellors for about three decades of their lives.

Winston describes he and Lorna's busy, fulfilled lives together as an "adventure".

The Dickersons were married in East London.

Ran a guesthouse

The Dickersons ran a guesthouse on their property in Rexford, Knysna, called Winlow Lagoon View.

They married in the German Lutheran Church in Park Avenue, East London.

Telling how he met Lorna, Winston explains that she was visiting a friend who was ill. "I think the friend fancied Lorna," Winston says.

But he decided Lorna was the woman for him, so after only meeting her and chatting to her once, he asked her to "go steady" with him.

Winston had bought her a pearl drop pendant on a gold chain and when Lorna agreed to his request to go steady, he gave her the gift. The couple married young - Lorna was 21 and Winston 22 years old.

During their marriage they moved about 10 times, to different parishes, before retiring to Knysna.

They have two children, Brendan in Windhoek and Carmel in Cape Town, and they have two granddaughters in Windhoek and one granddaughter in Cape Town.

Winston and Lorna Dickerson (front, centre), celebrated their 60th anniversary with a group of friends. Photo: Supplied

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