Well, it’s never too late to love and marry.
An elderly couple married on Saturday after four decades of friendship.
Joan Neininger and Ken Selway, both 89 years old, took the plunge at the residential care home where they live in Gloucester. They first met when Ken was rummaging through the bins outside Joan’s bookshop in Gloucester back in 1975.
The loved-up pensioners got together after they ended up living in the same retirement home after Joan’s husband’s death.
Joan proposed last year after Norman, her husband of 30 years, died from a heart attack.
Ken had been friendly with both Joan and her husband Norman when he was alive.
The great-grandmother said: “When I saw him ferreting through the bins outside a fish and chip shop near my bookshop, I never thought for a minute it would end like this. But although he was living on the streets, I knew straight away that Ken was a lovely man with a beautiful soul.”
Joan’s perception of homeless people changed when she read Jeremy Sandford’s book “Down and out in Britain”.
She said: “People say I saved Ken. But it was actually Jeremy Sandford’s book that made me look twice at the men sleeping rough and see him as the person as he was.”
