BYRON MCDANIEL, STAR Writer
LEFT: The Harrisons and friends on their wedding day. RIGHT: The Harrisons - CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
WALDERSTON, MANCHESTER:
THE 52 YEARS union of Jeremiah and Clarice Harrison of Chudleigh in Manchester, may be the standard by which good marriages are judge: two hearts beating as one, and telepathy of the minds.
Jeremiah Harrison and Clarice Bent met as neighbouring children at Southfield in St. Elizabeth and both attended the Queensbury Missionary Church in the parish. Their relationship then was only as members of the same church (platonic).
PLAY
"She used to play jax on her grandparents tomb next door with her cousins. She was neat and perfect in deportment. I tried to join them in playing, but she would have none of that, telling me to go and play with the other boys", said Jeremiah of his wife.
According to Mr. Harrison, "it was in the summer of 1950 that we became close friends ..."
"A mid Summer's night dream," his wife interjected. "I was 19 at the time and he was president of the Missionary Youth Fellowship and I was secretary. I love to hear him play the guitar," she continued.
Mr. Harrison went to be trained as a pastor at Jamaica Bible College in Mandeville and his wife went to Durham Business College in Kingston. She eventually join him at Bible College.
The Harrisons' got married on June 13, 1953 at Emmanuel Missionary Church in Mandeville after which they lived in St. Thomas and Clarendon, where Mr. Harrison worked as assistant manager at the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) before finally settling in Manchester as a farmer. His wife worked as an accountant at the Christiana Area Lands Authority (CALA). She retired after 30 years.
HARD WORKER
Mr. Harrison continues to farm while serving as chairman of the Christiana Potato Growers Association. "He just won't stop working", said his wife.
The Harrisons are so close that whenever one is ill the other experiences the pain and shows the symptoms of the other. According to Mr. Harrison, "when she travels on a plane I never stop praying until it lands safely".
The couple enjoys the relationship with their children and grandchildren at home and abroad. When LIFE & TIMES visited, their son David, an actuary, was visiting from abroad.
When LIFE & TIMES bade farewell at the couple's lovely and spacious home in Chudleigh, Mr. Harrison expressed a rear sentiment 'life is wonderful', while his wife gave a cherubic smile.
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