Ring the Bells! - It's an All Seniors Care Wedding.

By Danny Hooper

Doris Mahon, 89, and Clarence Thompson, 94, will wed Saturday at Rutherford Heights Retirement Residence.

He’s Counting The Sleeps.

And for good reason. Saturday night, 94-year-old Clarence Thompson will finally get to sleep with his sweetheart, 89-year-old Doris Mahon. The couple will wed in the afternoon in a small chapel at the Rutherford Heights Retirement Residence in south Edmonton, where they both now live, but in separate suites.

The twice-widowed Doris moved into the complex back in the summer of 2008, the long-retired meteorologist Clarence showed up roughly 6 months later, and was quickly smitten. Unable to eat, unable to sleep, he set his mind to marrying the lovely Doris, but how to go about it? Meteorologists, after all, tend to be a shy lot.

His early attempts at courtship went unnoticed, thanks in no small part to the competition from other men at Rutherford, all better shuffle-boarders, bridge players, and dancers.

But somewhere along the way all that changed and Doris finally noticed Clarence, who proposed earlier this summer, shortly before her birthday.

A man of many tributes, what Doris loves most is his sense of humour. On their first date she asked if he’d ever been married. After pondering the question awhile he replied, with a twinkle in his eye, “I don’t remember.”