Vancouver man’s Alzheimer’s experience offers hope, inspiration

Roswell Gordon’s eyes lit up as he smiled at his wife, Marilynn, recounting how they met almost 65 years ago while studying at the University of California, Berkeley. The walls of their Vancouver home are adorned with relics of their life together. Over the past decades, the couple have gone on many adventures — backpacking around Europe for six months, spending time in Eastern Asia, driving across the United States — the two made it their mission to learn about the world through experiencing it.