Nancy attended Takapuna Grammar School and passed Matriculation. She could have continued for another year but decided that the maths would be too hard so told her teachers that she was needed at home and left. She trained as a kindergarten teacher and as their were no jobs she started her own private kindergarten- Rahiri Kindergarten, in the downstairs area of the family home.
John Emmitt entered her life at about this time as his father, Rev E.S.Emmitt, was posted to Takapuna Methodist Church. John and Nancy used to meet at the ferry buildings to catch the passenger ferry to Devonport and were known as "the young lovers".
They were married in the Takapuna Methodist Church on 26 November 1938 by grandpa Emmitt.
Nancy and her sisters 1933
John and Nancy about 1936
John and Nancy were engaged Xmas 1937
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