LOVING COUPLE: Mr. and Mrs. Gordon relaxing at home.- micheal sloley WHEN Adlyn and Timothy met as children in school in Brown's Town, St. Ann, more than 55 years ago, little did they know that one day they would be husband and wife.
Adlyn tells THE WEEKEND STAR her husband Timothy who is five years older than she is, used to tease her a lot. "I knew him since I was in primary school and I could not stand him," she recalls. "He used to trouble me every day."
She says that he would throw pebbles at her whenever he saw her. "He was not able to talk to express his feeling so he used pebbles to do it for him," a friend of the family interjected.
To this day Timothy doesn't talk much and this was evident during the interview. He hardly spoke.
"When I trouble her I just do it as joke. I never want to hurt her," Timothy, now 74, managed to say.
But as fate would have it, the two children who didn't seem to like each other ended up as Mr. and Mrs. Gordon. And, now, they have been happily married for 42 years.
Adlyn and Timothy became friendly two years after they started working together at the St. Ann Beverages. She said she started working at the company in 1955 and he started a year later.
Mrs. Gordon said that their getting together was by pure chance. "One day I was catching a ride to Kingston (fromBrown's Town) and the man that usually take me was not at the spot that I always meet him," she said.
However, she said she saw Timothy waiting for her in his truck where the man would normally have been. She said she was unwilling at first but eventually got into his truck.
"I remember that he said to me: 'It better you come because we are going to die on the same pillow'. I was so mad that I did not speak to him until we reached Bog Walk," she said.
She said that after they began talking and she found out that he was a very nice and kind person. "So we got involved about two years after he start working at the company. And after we start talking we got married a short time after that," she said.
The couple, who are members of the Brown's Town Tabernacle Church, courted for six months, got married, and have six children, five girls and a boy.
