NY WWII vet marries for 1st time at 99, bride’s 86

Gilbert Herrick says he never got married because he never met the right woman — until he turned 98.
 
Now 99, the World War II veteran and retired postal worker from Rochester recently married Virginia Hartman, 86, a widow who raised five children.
 
Gilbert tells the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester that their first encounter was in 2010 in a hall at Monroe Community Hospital, the nursing home where they both live. After that, he started visiting her every day.
 
Gilbert says they wanted to share a room, but the facility’s rules don’t allow it unless a couple is married. Hartman asked him if he wanted to tie the knot, he said yes and they were married on June 6 with Hartman’s extended family on hand.