The Morisset Park couple were working at Sanitarium's Cooranbong factory when they met.

Joe was a dapper young man with black and white shoes and 32-inch bell bottom trousers. Daphne was a contortionist and, well, a bit of a flirt.

"I was standing with my hand on a rail about to go up some stairs when I saw her. I was shy and I will never forget that moment when she walked up and placed her hand on mine. That was it, I was gone," Joe, 92, said.

"She was such a happy go lucky girl. Always smiling and very attractive."

Daphne, 90, also remembers the day clearly.

"I was actually with my boyfriend when I saw Joe and I said to my beau, that's the man I'm going to marry," she said.

"Joe was quite nice looking. He had lovely shoes. So I ended it with the boy and married Joe."

Just after they got engaged the war began, but because of Joe's flat feet, he got to stay by Daphne's side.

"We were just walking on air after he proposed and headed to Sydney to buy a ring. The Japanese were in the [Sydney] harbour and everyone was clearing out of Sydney, but we didn't care a bit," Daphne said.

"Joe got 21 days compassionate leave from the army to get married so he took me around and showed me off to all his relatives as a honeymoon because we didn't have any money to go anywhere. But Joe didn't go to war as he had the wrong sort of feet and I was absolutely glad he had those feet."

A year after they were married their first child was born, and then three more in quick succession (one at home on Christmas Day).

They worked side by side in Sanitarium factories in Tasmania, Victoria and back at Cooranbong.

There have been ups and downs (including the death of one of their children), but never once did they think about calling it quits.

"It's part of my religious belief to stick together, but really we just never got sick of each other," Joe said.

"We are so close to each other, we've rarely spent a night apart. We have three words that settle our arguments - 'I love you'. That's so important, to keep saying that."