Subhead
■ Local couple reflects on seven decades together
It was a classic love story. Boy meets girl. Girl doesn’t care for boy right away, then comes love and then comes a marriage that has spanned seven decades for Max and JoAnn Friesen.
The couple met for the first time back in 1949 at a football game.
“I’m from York and he was from Hampton,” she recalled. “I didn’t like him at first at all. Anyway, we started dating and he was the nicest man I’ve…