94-Yr-Old Loses Wife Of 66 Yrs, But Fills Void With Tear-Jerking Project For Neighborhood Kids.

When a couple’s been married for decades, they get used to the house being filled with all sorts of familiar sights, sounds and smells: The clink of dishes and silverware being washed and put away, the smell of chicken baking in the oven, the tippity-tap of fingertips on a keyboard, even the slight shuffling of footsteps down the hallway.

The void left in the wake of the husband or wife’s death can be deafening, to say the least.

That’s the situation Keith Davison found himself in when his wife of 66 years, Evy, passed away from cancer last year. In the weeks and months following her death, the retired judge endured the silence and loneliness at his home in Morris, Minnesota, as best he could.

Then one day, he decided to fill the silence.


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Earlier this year, Keith built a pool. But if you’re picturing groups of adults hanging out poolside sipping mai tais and laughing quietly among themselves, think again.

There’s no community pool for the kids in Keith’s neighborhood to enjoy and cool off in during the sweltering summer months, so he built it for them. It’s not an above-ground or inflatable plastic pool, either.


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The 32-foot-long pool is nine feet at the deep end and even has a diving board that area children have been leaping and diving off of since the pool opened last month. (Always, of course, under the supervision of their parents.)


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From a practical standpoint, no, it probably doesn’t make a lot of sense for a 94-year-old man to spend tens of thousands of dollars to install a pool (although he does take his turn enjoying it, once the kids are gone for the day).

But Keith doesn’t have any grandchildren, and “what else would you think of doing where you could have a whole bunch of kids over every afternoon?â€


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Take a look at the video below to see how much happiness his project has brought to so many children (and adults!) in his Share to spread his generous spirit!

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