Computer dating, and now online matchmaking has helped hundreds of millions of people meet. It’s estimated last year that thirteen percent of people using a dating site eventually got engaged or married, that’s according to data research firm Statista.
Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, computer matching of couples was just getting started, and that’s how one Lexington couple met more than 53 years ago.
Dick Owen, who is 77 years old now, grew up in a small town named Delmar in New York State not far from Albany. About 12 miles away, his future wife Sherry, now 74, grew up in the town of Cohoes.
