Missfit, your friend sounds like an adorable lady. I knew an old lady like this. She became a JW later in life. She lived on her own and loved entertaining. Always younger ones, never those her own age. We were young enough (at the time) to be her grand children. We loved her. Young at heart she was. Never went anywhere without her high heel shoes.
As she got older she went into a retirement home far from us and we missed her. It was near to where she was brought up as a child. One year we went on holiday there and looked her up. While hubby went climbing the neaby mountains. I took her along with my children for a drive in the countryside. We went past all her old haunts and she thought it was wonderful and told me all her stories as a child. We stopped at a countryside inn and sat outside in the sun overlooking a river and had some lunch. It was a time I will never forget. She was a wonderful old lady and I still think of her with a deep fondness.
Treasure a friendship like this!