TOGETHER FOREVER: George and Mary Allen living the love. - Ian AllenIT was love at first sight when Mary saw George Allen 36 years ago in Frankfield, Clarendon.
Mary, age 19 at the time, used to watch George who was 30 years old working on the new roads in Frankfield.
"He used to drive bulldozer... you know to push down the trees to make the roads and I used to just go out there and watch him drive it," she recalled.
"As she hear the bulldozer start she come out and look," George joked.
"Don't do me like that, man," she retorted.
Mrs. Allen said that she was living with her grandmother at the time when she met her husband. "When I used to watch him push over the trees I used to say 'what a good man'," she said.
The couple said they got friendly and George began to build another road, this time to her heart. "He started visiting me regularly... he would go away and come back, he wouldn't leave me out," she said.
Mrs. Allen said George met his grandmother and she approved of the relationship. That was when they decided they would get married.
The Allens, who are members of the New Testament Church in Frankfield, had a small wedding at the marriage officer's house. "It was only four of us," George said.
"Yes... My husband, me and he brought a witness and I brought a witness," she continued.
The ceremony took place on September 11, 1966. "Thirty-five wonderful years together, I love him more every day," Mrs Allen said with a warm look in her eyes.
The union has produced six children and 10 grandchildren. "He worked hard to support his children, he was a hard worker... but because the bulldozer shook him up so much he has an enlarged heart," she said.
But whatever his illness she said she will always love the man she met pushing over trees in Frankfield.
