Name coincidences

In 2002 I was returning from New Zealand after a 6 week retirement holiday which my husband & I had planned together in 1994. Unfortunately he died in 1995, but I decided to go alone after retirement in December 2001 from the company we both had worked for. On the leg of the journey from Sidney to Bankok my seat was the centre of three, the passenger on the left embarked at Sidney & I thought it strange that the stewards seem to think we were together. My husbands name was John Walkley, and this passenger told me his name was Owen Walkley, no relation though! After he had left the plane, I started a conversation with my right hand passenger, his name turned out to be Steve Nichols, the same name as the person who had been my husband's deputy at work. I found it weird but strangely comforting!