An Island Harbour couple, Monroe and Carol Webster have just celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary and are grateful to family and friends for their good wishes and support.
“We feel great,” Carol commented when greeted at the Mount Fortune Seventh-day Adventist Church on Saturday, September 29. “We have four children; eight grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild,” she proudly said.
Their first son, Malcolm, an Engineer, is the Facilities Manager at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and a Pathfinders’ Director. The second, Marlin, is a Security Technician in Anguilla. The third son, Moriex, is a former Fire Fighter with the Anguilla Fire and Rescue and is now in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, working as a leading Facilitator with Island Roads. The fourth son, Marius, is a Mechanic in Lakeland, Miami.
Monroe met Carol in 1976 in her native Barbados on his first visit for a US Visa. He travelled there by plane, but stayed with other Anguillians at the Bridgetown Harbour on the New London, the Anguillian wooden hull cargo boat owned by the late Mr. Albert Lake. “He fell in love with me the first time he saw me at the boat, but did not tell me,” Carol recalled. “But he waited until he had returned to Anguilla to call me saying he loved me.”
She joined him in Anguilla in August 1978 and they got married in September that year at St. Mary’s Anglican Church. They were the first couple to be married by the late Rev. Raphael Lake, MBE. The celebration of their marriage began on Saturday night, September 29, at Jedd Hunte’s Restaurant at Island Harbour where a surprise 40th anniversary party was held.
It was in fact a week of celebration for the family. Moriex celebrated his 34th birthday on his parents’ wedding anniversary date on September 28. On September 30, Carol celebrated her birthday; and on October 2, Monroe celebrated his birthday.
“The family gives thanks to God for forty wonderful years,” Carol said.
Monroe, a leading mechanic is also a heavy equipment owner and operator. Carol is a former trained Special Needs Teacher at the Orealia Kelly Primary School. She is a substitute teacher at The Valley Primary School.
