Aging Hands Tie the Knot at Nursing Home
Aging Hands Tie the Knot at Nursing Home
source: Associated Press Strange News
By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer
MAMARONECK, N.Y. – For three-quarters of a century, Mildred Bobe resisted flirts, turned down proposals, always found “something wrong” with the men who were interested. Relatives called her “Spinster Millie.”
But on Thursday she made it down the aisle — with the help of a walker festooned with roses and lace — and married 85-year-old Hubert Spurr, whom she met when their wheelchairs lined up together in physical therapy class at the Sarah Neuman nursing home.
They were pronounced husband and wife at a nonsectarian service in the home’s sunny Winter Garden, before about 100 chatty residents and one squirming baby. The audience let out a collective “Oooh” when Bobe appeared in her long ivory gown and squealed at each of the couple’s three kisses.
Bobe, 73, accepted Spurr’s proposal — and the $18 ring he bought at the nursing home gift shop — just a few weeks after meeting him. It seems he knew just the right compliment.
“He said he liked my eyes,” Bobe said Thursday as she primped for the ceremony.
At the wedding, a tenor sang “Spanish Eyes.”
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