STUART and Rosemary Simms always presented a team effort during their extensive community involvement in the Lake Charm district.
Both became involved in the committee managing the Lake Charm Hall in 1959.
So it was with some emotion on Sunday, moments after Mr Simms was announced as a hall committee life member, that he also accepted a posthumous life membership on behalf of his late wife.
Ron McFarlane has also served on the committee for a similar period was was also duly honoured at the 125th anniversary celebrations for the public hall.
During the past 58 years, Mr Simms has been part of the social committee, the floor committee and has been president for the past 14 years.
Both Mr Simms and Mr McFarlane were involved in hiring the hall for six shillings an evening for music practice, which involved a decree that they could only use one light and they could use the piano until 10.30pm!
Those early music sessions led to the creation of the Gay Charmers group, which has entertained generations of people and raised much needed funding for many causes.
Both men were accorded the title of Living Legends during bicentenary celebrations in 1988.
Mr McFarlane said that it was a great honour receiving acknowledgement and Mr Simms said that he was just “doing what the community does.”
Mr Simms said that Rosemary’s plaque would remain a treasured possession.
Mrs Simms and local historian Pat Gillingham were the custodians of hall and district memorabilia and they together compiled the hall centenary book.
State Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh said that Mrs Simms’ role in preserving history was significant.
“She leaves a great legacy and her legacy lives on,” he said.
