Even circumstances can't keep Syd and Gladys Honeyfield apart.
After 70 years of marriage, Gladys is now in Carter House while Syd still lives in the home they shared until two and a half years ago - but they are still virtually inseparable.
Syd visits every day - twice most days. He's there to give Gladys her lunch and then again in the late afternoon to give her her tea.
Gladys and Syd were married on August 27, 1947 in the old Te Puke Methodist Church.
Gladys, nee Ward, was Te Puke born and raised, but Syd came to the area from Taranaki when he was 20 and his father got work as a sharemilker at Te Tumu.
The couple met at a dance at McDowell's Hall.
Gladys was working for Thomas Lay in Lay's Jewellers, which is where Syd bought the engagement ring. He had to wait until she was out of the shop to go in and buy it and, while she didn't know it at the time, it was a ring she had made.
Their's was a double wedding, shared with Gladys' brother Arthur Ward and his bride Nancy Wilson. Syd's best man was his brother Joe and Gladys was attended by her sister Joyce.
After the wedding and the reception at Baikies Tearooms, they headed off to Napier via Lake Waikaremoana and then back around East Cape in Syd's Baby Austin 7.
Syd did a variety of jobs - working on the Bragg farm, then Archie Marks' farm, followed by 19 years driving for Road Services and then the switch to Railways in 1971.
They built their first home and moved into it just before their seventh wedding anniversary.
"We shifted three times, but we never moved far enough to leave our rubbish behind," says Syd. They have both been heavily involved in the community.
Syd put his driving skills to good use and was granted the Prior Award for his services as a volunteer St John's driver. At one time he was the country's oldest school bus driver. Both are long-time drivers for Red Cross.
In other involvements Syd become a life member of Probus, chairman of the Methodist Opportunity Shop and a member of the church's hall committee, while Gladys was honoured as a long serving member of the National Council of Woman.
When the Tauranga Bus Company's original Number 1 bus came up for sale in the 1950s, they bought it for £200 - about $400. Syd fitted it out with bunks and they toured all over the country with children Dorothy, Linda, Gloria, Craig and Grant.
Being involved with their children's activities meant Syd was a Scout leader for 15 years, and Gladys a Brownie leader for 37. Syd says that throughout their long marriage, they have always respected one another and what each of them does.
"We've each done our own thing and supported one another, but not taken over what the other one was doing," he says.
"Whatever we've done, we've always had the support of the other person."
The couple plan a quiet celebration of their milestone at Carter House.