Posted on 04/17/2009 3:49:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Residents of a northeast Kansas town are mourning the deaths just hours apart of an elderly couple who were married 67 years. Arnita Yingling died in her sleep early Saturday at the family's home in Troy. She was 93. Six hours later her 95-year-old husband, Lyle, died at a nursing home in the nearby town of Wathena.
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How wonderful for them to spend that long together and then die the same day. They don’t even have to spend time alone in Heaven. That is pretty lucky. Of course for the kids it kinda is terrible, but knowing that both are together hopefully is settling. God Bless them. Prayers to the grieving family though.
Good looking couple!
About ten years ago I remember the story of a younger couple. She died at home of an asthma attack. The husband died from electrocution on a construction site before he ever found out.
:’-(
Depending on the type of Heaven, a person wouldn't necessarily to separated from a loved even if they die years apart.
I bet it was a blessing to the kids
67 years. That’s one soul in two bodies.
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith “A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”
—Robert Browning
Kurt Vonnegut described this as a “Duprass” a term meaning
two mates who die within hours of each other, a not uncommon happening with partners who have been together
for a long period of time.
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
William Butler Yeats (1892)
I just loved your post.
“The two shall become one.” Yes, two souls in one body, indeed.
I cherish every day we have together.
That’s beautiful.
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