Toowoomba couple puts each other first
John and Rosie met at netball game
❝John was there for football training with his mates and we ended up playing a game against each other. — Rosie Miners
THE secret to John and Rosalind (Rosie) Miners’ 50-year marriage is that each always thinks of the other first.
Mr Miners said if he or his wife had $100, they would spend it on the other before even thinking about anything else.
The happy couple married on June 10, 1967 at the St Peters and St Paul’s Church in Bulimba in Brisbane.
The day, they said, was memorable for a number of reasons - first, that is was the day they declared their love for each other, and second, for the “12 inches” of rain that bucketed down.
“It was fine at the church, but we had the reception in the garage of Rosie’s parents and there was water running everywhere,” Mr Miners said.
There was so much rain that Mr Miners family, who came to the city from Junction View, couldn’t make it home.
Mr and Mrs Miners’ honeymoon at Mount Tamborine was also cut short.
“We were the last car across the Logan Bridge,” Mrs Miners said.
“The next morning, there was no power. So we had to go to a friends place and sleep on their lounge, no one ever lets us forget.”
The couple first met during a netball game.
“I was quite an introvert and mum had said I had to get out and meet people, so I went and grabbed the girl down the road and we went to netball,” Mrs Miners said.
“John was there for football training with his mates and we ended up playing a game against each other.
“The rest, they say, is history.”
About two weeks after they met, Mr Miners popped the question and asked Mrs
Miners to be his wife.
They married nine months later.
“We travelled all over Queensland and had a fabulous life,” Mrs Miners
said.
They first lived in a house in Mansfield, Brisbane,
before moving to Longreach.
Mr Miners worked as a technician with Telstra and in Longreach, worked at the local radio station 4QL.
From Longreach, the two lived and worked all over north Queensland.
“I was sent on a seven-week project, but came back seven months later,” Mr Miners said.
The couple also lived in Emerald for a time where Mrs Miners decided to go back to high school and finished her senior studies.
Then they moved to Toowoomba in 1987 so Mrs Miners could study teaching at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now the University of Southern Queensland).
The two shifted again to Goondiwindi, where Mrs Miners taught as a teacher. They also lived in Yelarbon before heading back to Toowoomba in 1992.
When they retired, Mr Miners became an entertainer - he’s a country singer.
He’s also a member of TOMNET, where he coordinates the music group the TOMNET Minstrels.
The couple enjoyed playing sports over the years and went on many wonderful holidays together.
Mr and Mrs Miners will
celebrate their anniversary with family and friends with a afternoon tea and light dinner at Drayton Hall.
Mrs Miners said instead of gifts, the two asked for donations to be given to the Toowoomba Hospice.
Next week, they will go on a road trip, visiting Tenterfield, Glen Innes and
Armidale.
The couple have three children - Elizabeth, Jeanette and Gordon.
They have six grandchildren - Luke, Reece, Analeise, Alexander, Corey and Brooke and five great-grandchildren Lincoln, Arabella, Braelyn, Matilda and Adalyn.