Mrs. O’Connor, 74, retired two decades ago and would regularly fly back to New York to visit her elderly parents. Mr. O’Connor, 70, continued working as an air-traffic control coordinator. “It was like jumping on a running horse,” he said. “It was a fabulous job.”
Within a few years, the two were married and eventually settled in a house in Tarrant County, near Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
She was the company’s head of payroll for flight dispatchers when she met Michael O’Connor, a Philadelphia native, on his first day of work at the airline.
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