For nearly six decades, Andy Carver, an Army veteran, bought his wife a bouquet of flowers every week.
Andy picked up fresh flowers for Brigette every Friday. Sometimes it would be white carnations – her favorite – or it would be roses, which were his.
He said, “I mixed it quite a bit,” “She just loved it, and I just loved to see her smile. I loved to make her happy.”
It was a long tradition that ended last March, when his wife, Brigitte, died at a hospice due to complications from a stroke.
But Carver, 84, figured out a new way to continue his tradition – by buying flowers, each week, for people at his retirement community in Texas.
He said his new tradition began when one of his neighbors at Lakeline Oaks Retirement Resort in Cedar Park, Texas was ill and he decided to take the neighbor a bouquet of roses. It cheered up the neighbor.
Carver said, “(I told my daughters), I think it would make me feel good if I would do that every week for someone.”
And so, a new tradition was born.
Andy met Brigette at a restaurant in Rudesheim, Germany more than 50 years ago. He was stationed with the Army in a neighboring town and she was a German native working as a nurse.
On their first date, he brought her a bouquet of flowers. He continued that tradition throughout their 59-year marriage.
Now, every Friday, he buys a bouquet for one his neighbors during happy hour. He has given out 35 bouquets.