A couple who spent their first nights apart in seven decades due to lockdown were reunited in time for their 70th wedding anniversary.
Frank Howell, 90, and his wife Joan, 93, have been inseparable since tying the knot in 1951 and had never spent longer than a few days apart.
But retired carpet fitter Frank was forced to move into Astley Hall Nursing Home in Stourport, Worcs, last September with dementia and bladder cancer.
As a result the devoted couple were kept apart for five months until they were finally reunited on February 2 when Joan joined her beloved husband following a fall.
Frank and Joan Howell were reunited after several months apart in time for their 70th anniversary last week
The happy moment husband and wife Frank and Joan Howell were reunited after months apart during lockdown A PLATINUM Kidderminster couple who were separated for several months during the pandemic have been reunited in time to celebrate their milestone anniversary at the care home where they both now live. Frank Howell was already living at Astley Hall Care Home, near Stourport, when the Covid pandemic hit last year, meaning he and wife Joan were unable to see each other for several months - the longest they had spent apart in their seven decades of marriage.
Frank and Joan Howell on their wedding day in 1951