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Flo tells golden couple—see you in 10 years
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Mrs Cooch (left) with
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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Mrs. Florence Cooch will be flying back home to America on Tuesday after a six-week stay in Britain, but all being well she should be back again in ten years' time.
Mrs. Cooch, who is 69, emigrated to the States in 1922 but came back in May for the golden wedding of her cousin, Mrs. Amelia Smith, of 52 Tennyson, Rushden. She had a special reason for attending the celebration—she was one of the bridesmaids at St. Mary's Church in 1921. "That is why I hope to be back in ten years' time," she said yesterday. "I want to join in the diamond wedding celebrations."
Emigrated
Mrs. Cooch thought she had left Rushden behind when she emigrated but within a year she had met and married another Englishman whose home town was Rushden.
She is now a widow, living in North Adams, Michigan, and over the years has been back to Rushden several times, but finds that the town has not changed much.
"There are on or two new buildings, but I never find that I am lost."
For most of her stay she has been with her cousin, and her 75-year-old husband Mr. Reginald Smith, who for several years was chairman of the Rushden West Ward Conservative Association.
The Smiths are looking forward to their diamond wedding just as much as their bridesmaid. "The golden anniversary was a real reunion, with relatives and friends, and the next one could be as nice," said Mr. Smith.
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