The coronavirus separated them, but after 70 years of marriage, not even a pandemic could keep them apart. New Yorkers Walter Willard, 91, and Jean Willard, 89, were nearly inseparable for seven decades until COVID-19 swept through the United States, forcing them apart for months.
They were finally reunited at a nursing home this week in a tearful reunion with plenty of kissing, after officials made an exception under coronavirus rules.
They’d both been in near-perfect health for their entire marriage until Jean fell and broke her pelvis last year and began showing signs of dementia, their daughters Wendy Willard and Wanda Glenn told CBS affiliate WRGB-TV.