60 years ago they said it wouldn’t last when he popped question after only four days together

LET’S all send our very best wishes to a lovely Dundee couple who have a lot to deal with right now.

Jack Hogan was a handsome young corporal home on leave when he first laid eyes on bonny Kathleen Rourke at the Palais in 1957.

Just 10 days later they were married — and their 60th anniversary is this month.

“They said it wouldn’t last,” said Jack, 81. “But we just knew — it’s one of those things.

“We were born four days apart and we’d known each other for only four days when I proposed — and she said, ‘Yes’.”

Kathleen spent more than 20 years helping others as a nurse, and the same again as a sheltered housing warden.

They should be celebrating, but Kathleen’s in Edinburgh’s Royal Victoria Hospital at the moment, after having suffered a stroke.

Jack was a regular soldier who had served at Suez and was stationed in Minden, Germany, when he met Kathleen.

A recent picture of Kathleen and Jack Hogan, and below, the couple on their wedding day in 1957.

He loved the Army, but didn’t fancy married quarters, so he left to be with her. He drove buses for a bit and worked at Veeder-Root and NCR before ultimately becoming a manager at Tayside Regional Council. Jack and Kathleen have two sons — Derek, who...