On October 4,1969, they were married.
On Friday they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
“We enjoyed many lunches together while I worked at the woollen mills, which is where Okey’s is now and Rob was an apprentice at Bonnetts Electrical,” Mrs Wallace said.
She said that was the start of a life-long friendship.
Growing up two blocks away from each other, Mr Wallace said the whole street helped celebrate their marriage.
“We had my dad’s Mini packed and ready after the breakfast with friends and family and I trusted my brother Eric and cousin Ken with the keys,” he said.
“When we took off the car was full of confetti and had writing all over it,” he said.
“We also arrived home to our bedroom suite in the garage and our kitchen items in the bedroom.”
The couple welcomed their first born, Jason, on May 4, 1970.
They moved into their forever home in Mooroopna later that year.
“We have been there all this time with many cats, lots of dogs, guinea pigs, a rat at one point in time and all kinds of birds,” Mr Wallace said.
After welcoming two more children, John and Tony, the family launched Wallace Electrical in 1976.
“With a lot of help from our friends and family we decided to go out on our own before welcoming our fourth son, Mark,” Mr Wallace said.
“They were good boys and they were all good sleepers with myself working night shift and Rob doing contract work,” Mrs Wallace said.
When the boys were old enough, Mrs Wallace swapped to day shift, allowing her to spend more time with the family.
Almost retired, the couple have become grandparents to 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
“Both our families are very male dominated, but now we have five great-granddaughters,” Mrs Wallace said.
“Our first great-grandchild was a girl and we couldn’t believe it - It had been all boys until then.”
She said it became a known fact if a Wallace baby born, it was a boy.
“My son John came out of the birthing room and he was bawling his eyes out and I said to his mother-in-law, they’ve had a girl,” Mrs Wallace said.
“I rang my parents and asked them to put me on speaker phone and told them the baby had been named Danielle Paige and my father said that was a horrible name for a boy,” she said with a laugh.
Mr Wallace said the children kept the couple young.
“We have so many great memories together and now that we’re slowing down, we hope to find where the last 50 years have gone,” he said.
“Sheryl must have liked me after all these years together.”