On June 6, at the age of 99, Gilbert Herrick took a bride. For the first time. "I never met the right woman until I met Virginia," he says.
Herrick, a World War II veteran and a retired postal worker, has been a resident at Monroe Community Hospital for 1½ years. Virginia Hartman-Herrick, 86, has been widowed for 25 years and moved to MCH about a year ago.
Gilbert and Virginia have a pretty simple, but very sane, philosophy — do the things that make you happy.
They met in the hall one day shortly after Virginia arrived.
"I said something about an exhibit of china painting downstairs (It was an exhibit of her work.). And he said, 'I'm going to go down and look at it.'"
Gilbert, who does oil paintings, liked what he saw. And the two of them soon became an item.
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