Finding mates in online dates

Philadelphia Inquirer, The, May, 2006 by Dianna Marder

Romance for the over-70 set is often sparked at high school or college reunions. He and she may have been acquaintances - or more - before their first marriages, and now that each is available again, getting together seems to make sense.

But when there is no old flame to rekindle, a growing number are going online.

Kay Rudderow, 66, and Charley Myers, 71, met on Match.com and will be married May 21.

Both lived in South Jersey, a few counties apart.

"But we would never have found each other," Myers said. After his wife of 43 years died, he dated one of her longtime friends.

When that did not work out, in 2002, Myers went to the Web - joining others his age in becoming, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, among the fastest-growing segment of...