Wartime sweethearts in love again Quote:
A couple who courted during World War II have fallen in love again, more than 60 years later.
Maimie Meakin and Frank Walker first met when he was an RAF gunner and was posted to Scotland.
However, after a three-year courtship the couple decided against marriage because of his perilous occupation.
It was only when Mrs Meakin, 83, from Staffordshire, recently wrote to 85-year-old Mr Walker's local newspaper in Manchester that they were reunited.
Mrs Meakin said the couple decided to split during the war: "Originally it was because of the life expectancy, my mother didn't want us to get married and me be a widow, probably with a child, and she would be responsible for the upbringing of the child.
"So we just drifted apart."
Mr Walker survived 36 missions but by the end of the war the couple's lives had drifted apart and both went on to have successful marriages elsewhere.
However, in recent years both were widowed.
Since being reunited, the couple are inseparable and spend their time between her home Great Wyerly and his home in Stockport.
Mrs Meakin, who was Miss Holloway at the time of their first courtship, said: "As soon as we met it was a funny sensation after all those years. But we were so close."
Mr Walker said: "I knew she was for me. We waited 60 odd years. It was beautiful."
Maimie Meakin and Frank Walker first met when he was an RAF gunner and was posted to Scotland.
However, after a three-year courtship the couple decided against marriage because of his perilous occupation.
It was only when Mrs Meakin, 83, from Staffordshire, recently wrote to 85-year-old Mr Walker's local newspaper in Manchester that they were reunited.
Mrs Meakin said the couple decided to split during the war: "Originally it was because of the life expectancy, my mother didn't want us to get married and me be a widow, probably with a child, and she would be responsible for the upbringing of the child.
"So we just drifted apart."
Mr Walker survived 36 missions but by the end of the war the couple's lives had drifted apart and both went on to have successful marriages elsewhere.
However, in recent years both were widowed.
Since being reunited, the couple are inseparable and spend their time between her home Great Wyerly and his home in Stockport.
Mrs Meakin, who was Miss Holloway at the time of their first courtship, said: "As soon as we met it was a funny sensation after all those years. But we were so close."
Mr Walker said: "I knew she was for me. We waited 60 odd years. It was beautiful."
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