{"id":724,"date":"2022-02-22T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/?p=724"},"modified":"2022-02-22T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:07:05","slug":"double-celebration-for-twins-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/2022\/02\/22\/double-celebration-for-twins-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Double celebration for twins birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDENTICAL twin sisters Beverley Whiting and Suzanne North have plenty of reasons to smile this week, celebrating their 70th<\/sup> birthday with family and friends.<\/p>\n

Beverley and Suzanne were born on the 19th<\/sup> of January, 1952 at Wimmera Base Hospital in Horsham and grew up at Dadswells Bridge.<\/p>\n

They were the oldest in a family of six children with three other sisters and a brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were both a couple of tomboys. We grew up on the farm at Dadswells Bridge and we used to be outside making cubby houses and everything else. Mum didn\u2019t like us in the house. Mum said we were pretty lively,\u201d Beverley said with a smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cMums mother, our grandmother had us for a while for a holiday and she ended up having to tie us up. That\u2019s how active we were,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The sisters say they have always been close, but admit they had a few disagreements when they were younger.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have our moments, we\u2019re not too bad, but when we were younger we had a few fights,\u201d Beverley said.<\/p>\n

The sisters even followed the same career path.<\/p>\n

Suzanne started nurse training the day man landed on the moon in 1969 and Beverley followed in her sisters footsteps a year later.<\/p>\n

Suzanne said they had followed each other to Ararat and were lucky because their husbands were both friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve followed each other everywhere. My partner is Beverley\u2019s husband\u2019s best friend. It\u2019s funny, we seem to have followed each other around,\u201d Suzanne said.<\/p>\n

The sisters say they get along really well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ring each other every day. We see each other almost every day and we share a lot of interests like cooking and gardening,\u201d Beverley said.<\/p>\n

Religion is also a big part of their lives, although they both attend different churches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a Lutheran but Jim my partner is a Catholic so I go with him because he recons otherwise he\u2019s be sitting on his own,\u201d Suzanne said.<\/p>\n

Suzanne was also quick to point out that she is the younger sister.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was half an hour behind Beverley when we were born. So she is my older sister,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Beverley and Suzanne started their week of birthday celebrations last Saturday with a party at home in Ararat.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturday (tomorrow) is our real birthday and Beverley and I are going for high tea at the Stawell Railway Station, that\u2019ll be a treat. There are 15 coming,\u201d Suzanne said.<\/p>\n

Beverley has recently become a grandmother for the first time while her sister Suzanne has four grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IDENTICAL twin sisters Beverley Whiting and Suzanne North have plenty of reasons to smile this week, celebrating their 70th birthday with family and friends.<\/p>\n

Beverley and Suzanne were born on the 19th of January, 1952 at Wimmera Base Hospital in Horsham and grew up at Dadswells Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_6814-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-bG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}