Early Life
Couch was born in 1925 in Christchurch and he grew up on Banks Peninsula. Couch's parents were Methodists but he was largely raised by his grandmother who belong to the Salvation Army. He attended Christchurch Technical School. He married Bessie, his childhood sweetheart who was a member of the LDS Church. Couch was in the Royal New Zealand Airforce at the end of World War II but was never sent into battle. At the age of 24 Couch joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He moved to the Wairarapa in the mid 1940s.
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