100-year-old Winnipeg man continues to make trek to visit his wife [Video]

It’s considered lucky to live to be 100, but often when you hit that milestone, you’re faced with significant mobility issues.

Not Winnipeg’s Jack Mudry. The centenarian regularly walks five blocks to get where he wants to go, the care home where his wife Stella lives.

“I ask God to help me,” said Mudry. “Help me with my movement, with my walking because I walk there and back.”

Mudry met his wife Stella in 1947 when he was getting a ride from Winnipeg to Sandy Lake. She was getting a ride too, and the pair hit it off.

“Stella turned around and kissed me,” Mudry remembers.

They were married three years later, and have been together ever since. At least they were until last year, when health problems forced the couple apart.

She was forced to move out of their retirement home to a care facility.

“He really misses her, and she really misses him,” said Mudry’s daughter …