Couple, each widowed after 60 years, wed

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A California couple, both widowed after 60 years of marriage, like the institution so much they have married each other.

Joann Lundgren, 84, and Bill Clark, who met six months ago at Belmont Village Senior Living in Sunnyvale, said their vows Thursday on his 90th birthday, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Sarah Lundgren-Wilson was her mother's matron of honor and Chuck Clark his father's best man.

The couple have a lot in common. Both are from the Midwest, she from Indiana and he from Missouri, and both married the first time not long after World War II.

They even lived in married student housing at Stanford University in 1948 and 1949 but didn't get to know each other.

Lundgren and her husband, Don, were living in Belmont Village when he died in 2007, a month before their 60th anniversary.

Clark's wife, Arline, died of a heart attack in 2006, a year after their 60th.

"We both had a happy married life for 60 years," Clark said. "We know a little bit about it."