TOGETHER AGAIN: Bobbie Blick and Leger Grindon managed to find each other even though they were separated by more than 60 years and a couple of time zones.

The couple, who were neighbors and sweethearts in University City in the 1940s, had grown apart, married others, raised children, moved to different states and been widowed before reuniting and getting married on Jan. 26.

"Imagine two people who are 83 getting married," chuckled Grindon today in a telephone interview from his home in Placentia, Calif.

Grindon was an attorney in St. Louis when he packed up his four kids and then-wife Claire to move to California in 1972. After graduating from U. City High, he had been in the Navy and attended St. Louis University for a couple of years and then law school at Washington University.

Blick -- whose maiden name was Neal -- had also attended Wash U., and had married William Leonard Blick who graduated from business school at the university the same year Grindon graduated from law school.

Blick and her husband had two children and retired to Ocoee, Fla. William Blick died in 2006. Claire Grindon died a year ago.

Leger Grindon said a few months after his wife of 62 years died, he was lonely and decided to look up Bobbie Blick. He had her address in Florida from a Washington U. alumni newsletter, which is where he'd also learned that her husband had died.

Grindon wrote his long-ago sweetheart and offered to send her round-trip tickets to California so she could come visit him for a week and give them a chance to get reacquainted. She did, they did and the result was their marriage late last month in Ocoee, which was attended by Blick's children, Tim Blick and Deb Blick.

When asked whether they had much in common over all the years, Leger Grindon said they share "mostly memories."