Is werner brenzel still living?

Question

he was living in zephyr hills in jan of 08

Answer 1

I haven't heard anything about him dying and there's no obituary on Legacy.com. Here's his claim to fame, for all 15 seconds of it:

Teen sweethearts divided by WWII reunited.

Source: UPI NewsTrack

Publication Date: 17-JAN-06

  

Teen sweethearts divided by WWII reunited.

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A pair of teen sweethearts have been reunited 66 years after they first met at a playground in the German port of Hamburg.

Rosemarie Hellwig and Werner Brenzel were separated by World War II, when he served in the military and her family fled to Poland. They met briefly after the war in the ruins of Hamburg, but Brenzel had fathered a child with another woman and was planning to marry her.

Last week, Brenzel flew to Florida after tracking down his old sweetheart with some help from the U.S. Consulate in Hamburg. He is visiting Hellwig at her home in the Zephyrhills Mobile Home Park outside Tampa.

"The first time I saw her, it was like lightning," Brenzel told the Tampa Tribune. "I knew from that day she would be the love of my life. All those years, I never forgot her."

Both Brenzel and Hellwig are widowed with grandchildren older than they were in 1939. They have no plans to marry and no definite plans beyond the end of the month, when Brenzel returns to Hamburg.

But they are happy.

"We've been given a second chance," Hellwig said. "Not many people get that."

Answer 2

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