It is really sad to lose your loved ones, especially at an elderly age. You feel lonely and need someone by your side.

Keith Davison, a retired district court judge, was crushed when his wife, Evy, passed away from cancer after 66 years of marriage.

The awful silence of their former house only worsened their loneliness.

Keith has always been highly active. During WWII, he served as an Army radio operator and played bass and tuba in local musical bands.

“You can’t fathom what it’s like,” he said. “You weep a lot. That’s how it is since she isn’t here. ”

He didn’t have much he could accomplish at his age. Keith recognized how lonely life was after being a widower for almost a year and came up with an unconventional idea: why not build a pool in his backyard?

Keith built an in-ground pool in his backyard for the benefit of the neighborhood kids in 2017, when he was 94 years old.

Children’s happy squeals may now be heard throughout his house!

The pool turned out to be the best way to both help him feel better and make other people happy.

After Keith’s garden was completed in July 2017, many people came there to escape the summer heat. “I knew they’d arrive,” he said.

When he first offered the idea to his neighbors, they thought he was joking.

“I told my husband last spring when I saw him marking the yard, ‘he’s definitely going to install a pool in his backyard,'” Jessica Huebner, one of his neighbors, recounted.

Jessica and her four children have been regulars at Keith’s pool since it first opened. She is thankful to Keith for coming up with this concept since it has provided so much enjoyment to so many youngsters.

She went on, “It’s him bringing pleasure to our community for these youngsters.”