I tear up: Winnipeg couple married 75 years reflects on Second World War experience – Winnipeg [Video]

A Winnipeg couple who met after the Second World War are celebrating their diamond anniversary, one day after Remembrance Day.

Jack and Yvonne Sellers — age 99 and 97, respectively — met in 1948 when Yvonne’s family moved to Davidson, Sask., from England.

Both were involved in the war effort in different ways. Jack served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, while Yvonne was part of a touring company that entertained Allied soldiers across Europe.

After a life together in Saskatchewan, Ontario, Yukon, and finally, Manitoba, the couple now live close to family at Winnipeg’s Deer Lodge Centre.

“Each place had its good times,” Yvonne told Global Winnipeg. “And the kids all sort of left and did their own thing and got married, and here we are with a pretty nice family. We have 11 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.”

Remembrance Day, she said, is emotional every year, and not only …