Anthony Henry, Staff Reporter
Eustace and Daisy Watson
EVER heard the phrases "money makes the world go 'round" or "no money, no love". They mean that without money nothing is possible - not even love.
Whoever fashioned those statements have been proven wrong by Eustace and Daisy Watson who shared 37 years of blissful marriage and they did not have much money.
"We struggled to have the little that we have now. We worked hard and do good and make plans with what we have," Mrs. Watson said from their Narine Road home in Old Harbour Bay.
She said that when the right persons come together and they work hard they can do anything. "You can't just pick up a man and marry to him just like that. You have to make sure that is someone you can work with," Mr. Watson added.
He said that they used to earn $60 per week in the 1970s working a labourer and she sold fish in the Old Harbour Bay fishing village.
Mr. Watson said that he met his wife in Mitchell Town in 1953 when he was looking for a place to live. He said he had just left Manchioneal, Portland and got work in Clarendon.
He said he rented a room from her mother . They lived on the premises for some time before he started to woo her. She was 24 and he was 36.
Mrs. Watson now 72 said she had three daughters from a previous relationship and was at first apprehensive about a relationship with Eustace because of her children. "I told him that if he accepted me, he had to accept my children--and now many people believe that they are his children," she added.
