‘We have the most wonderful family’: After celebrating the milestone occasion with a big party, Doreen and Harold Lesage sat down with SooToday to share the secrets of a healthy marriage and the blessings that come with having a giant family tree
The Garden River couple is in great spirits after celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary alongside 200 of their closest friends and loved ones earlier this month.
“The party was wonderful,” Doreen told SooToday. “We have the most wonderful family, and they all work so hard.” “When we were young, he had a new bike, and his sister said: ‘Why don’t you borrow his bike?’ I said, ‘But that’s a brand-new bike,’ and she said, ‘Well, he likes you, he’ll lend it to you.’ Years ago, you’d ride on the crossbar, so that’s how it started,” Doreen recalled.
While it was a comfortable life, the Lesages wanted their kids to have as many opportunities as possible, so Doreen got a job with the Garden River Band Office in 1971 as a social welfare administrator.“I said to my husband that I’m going to get a full-time job as well, and he said you don’t have to work,” she recalled. “But if we want more, then I have to go to work. So, as they were growing up, the kids had snow machines and everything we could buy for them.
A proud grandfather himself, Harold has always wanted to make sure that everyone is comfortable and happy.“These are all perfect kids,” he said. “Who can ask for anything more? No millionaire can say that. I don’t have the million, but I have many thanks for each one of them kids were perfect. They love another, they get along, and they build their own homes which makes me proud of them.”
During SooToday’s visit to the Lesage household, Doreen and Harold proudly showed off some photographs of their deep-rooted past, from old family pictures and wedding photos, to their 50th, 60th, and now 70th anniversary celebrations that have grown in attendance with each passing milestone.
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