Alex Trebek’s widow Jean shares photo from the couple’s 1990 wedding thanking fans

Jeopardy’s widow! Host Alex Trebek shared a photo from the couple’s wedding 30 years ago.

Jean Trebek, 56, posted a photo on Instagram of when Alex, wearing a white tuxedo and black bow tie, slipped a ring on his wife’s finger.

Trebek married Jean six years after he started hosting the hit game show in 1984.

“My family and I sincerely thank you all for your compassionate messages and your generosity. Your expressions really touched our hearts. Thank you very much, ”wrote Jean in the post.

“Sometimes you look at something, you look at someone, and you know,” Trebek wrote in his memoir of his future wife.

“I mean, you’ve heard stories of people meeting and deciding within half an hour; I knew this would be the person I would end up with. With Jeanie, it was like that.

The couple had two children together, Emily and Matthew.

Trebek was also close to his first wife’s daughter, Nicky. He married his first wife Elaine Callei in 1974 and they divorced in 1981.

Trebek had told how he wanted to spend his last day with Jean on their back swing. A producer on the show said he did just that.

“He had a swing in his garden that he loved. He actually rebuilt it earlier this year … Even in his book he described that he wanted his last day to be sitting on his swing next to his wife Jean and looking at the horizon and he was able to do it, ” executive producer Mike Richards said. to the Today’s show Monday.

“He was consistent. He wasn’t in pain and the fact that he had a great last day puts us all in the Jeopardy! the family feels much better, ”added Richards, speaking of the Jeopardy! located in Culver City, California.

Trebek passed away on Sunday at the age of 80, and his passing has been mourned by fans who have called the smart quiz master a nightly source of information and pure joy.

It had hosted more than 8,200 episodes of Jeopardy! over 37 seasons.

The death of Canada-born Trebek, who in March 2019 revealed his diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer, was shared on the show’s official Twitter account.

Trebek passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends, according to the show’s tweet.

Trebek said in September he was responding exceptionally well to treatment and hoped to mark his two-year survival next February.

The famous host admitted that his journey had not been easy and recounted how he struggled with episodes of ‘great depression’ throughout the process.

He remained optimistic about achieving two years of recovery, with the support of his wife and “soul mate” Jean, in addition to the “millions of prayers” sent by supporters around the world.

“The one-year survival rate for patients with stage 4 pancreatic cancer is 18%,” he said. “I am very happy to report that I have just reached this milestone,” he said last February.

“I would be lying if I said the trip was easy,” he admitted. “There were good days but many worse days. I joked with friends that cancer won’t kill me, chemotherapy treatments will.

“ There were times of great pain, days when certain bodily functions were no longer working and sudden, massive bouts of great depression that made me wonder if it was really worth fighting. ”

Trebek did his best to release the difficult feelings surrounding his serious illness and focused on staying positive.