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Resident couple celebrates 70th anniversary at Rosewood Village
Bill and Faye Robinson share their love story
7/28/2025
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Deron Hamel
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Bill and Faye Robinson celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at Rosewood Village recently with an ice-cream cake and a live performance of Elvis Presley's Can’t Help Falling in Love, two wishes the couple had for the occasion.
After, Bill and Faye sat down with Alexandra Doornbosch, the Sarnia seniors living community's fun co-ordinator, to share their love story.
Bill and Faye met when they were teenagers. It was a Saturday and Bill was outside helping his father paint their house. Bill's friend stopped by with his girlfriend and asked if Bill would like to get a milkshake with them. He agreed and got in the car, but he didn't realize that there was a young, pretty girl with them. It was Faye. Bill says his first spark was that she had “beautiful hair” and “just everything fit in place.”
The next day, Bill saw Faye walking up the street with a friend and says he “felt like, that's a really nice girl.” It was very shortly after they met that Bill knew Faye was the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, and the two soon began a courtship.
After dating for a little while, the time to introduce each other to their families came. Faye had Bill over for dinner one night to meet her family. Soon after, Bill did the same.
Bill remembered that his mother always made raisin pie, and she never cut small pieces.
“Faye had a piece, and later on, when I took her home, she told me she doesn't like raisin pie very much,” Bill recalls, with a smile.
Throughout their three years of dating, it was noticed that Bill and Faye were often holding hands, and people would mention this.
Seventy years later, the staff at Rosewood Village still notice that they hold hands when they sit outside together having meals, or when they're enjoying entertainment in the activity room or relaxing in the lounge, watching television.
“Holding hands – that's their thing,” says Susan Maw, Rosewood Village's executive director.
Bill proposed to Faye in his 1948 Plymouth. They were married on June 11, 1955, at Sarnia Central Baptist Church with about eight people in their wedding party.
Bill smiled when he expressed that their wedding day was “beautiful.”
The couple soon bought their first house on Ross Ave. in Sarnia and would raise two children, a daughter, Deb, and a son, John. Today, Bill and Faye have six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Asked to share a favourite memory from the past 70 years, Bill doesn't hesitate with a reply.
“That my wife loves me. She still loves me. And I still love her.”
Alexandra says speaking with Bill and Faye about their 70 years together has been a privilege she won't soon forget.
“It has been a true honour and pleasure to know these beautiful people together, and to have been a part of their special anniversary,” she says.
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