He followed her home to Tainui on the Musselburgh tram, asked her out, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The couple, who married in 1950 when Dawn was almost 19 and Cecil was 22, yesterday celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
All these years later, Mr Turner (82) cannot exactly remember where he first saw his bride-to-be. It might have been on George St - she says he might have come in to the DSA department store where she worked as a shop assistant.
But both say the chance meeting - and Mr Turner's persistence - led to a busy and happy life raising their six children and participating in their interests of golf, darts and music for Mr Turner and Plunket and latterly Probus for Mrs Turner (78).
They have lived almost all their married life in the home Mr Turner, a builder, built for them in Belford St, Waverley.
It is next-door to the house in which he was born and raised, and across the road from his sister's house.
"I've only had one big shift in my life, and that was from next-door to here," he said.
Mr Turner's building skills were also used to renovate a small crib at Otakou for family weekends and summers.
The Turners celebrated their anniversary on Sunday with a family dinner, an occasion Mrs Turner said was all the more special because it was the first time in 19 years they had been able to get together with all six children.
