Wow. The lengths some kids will go to to prove their parents wrong.
RIP, Lovebirds.
Really nice-looking couple! May they rest in peace.
“She passed away on July 16. Les died the following day — he never knew about his wife’s death. They were 94 years old.”
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Somehow, this doesn’t surprise me. There are so many examples, for instance, of dogs who pass away not long after their masters do.
There have been experiments where researchers found that dogs can tell when their owners leave work—even at times that aren’t the usual time. The dogs start pacing, etc... They just know, just as this man felt his wife’s passing.
The bonds of affection can sometimes be so strong. May we all be fortunate enough to experience that at some point in our lives.
The loving couple is now reunited in Heaven.
Julie
p.s., kind of unrelated, but perhaps not, doggie ping, Joe 6-pack :)
Reminds me of a corny joke told by my high school biology teacher (1963).
One of the gals in the front row was wearing a brown dress, he asked her “Do you know you look like Helen Brown?”
My folks were married for 71 years and my Mom died in 2011. Even though they lived together in the same board-and-care for about a year and a half (which my Dad entered about 6 months earlier than she did) my Dad (age 97) does not know she passed, and I have no intention of telling him. He thinks she’s out shopping or something.
I don’t really have anything profound to say about them/him. It was very difficult to find a facility where they could both live: She had cancer and suffered from horrible and extremely painful leg ulcers from excess fluid production; he had dementia. Many, many places do not like to combine medical with Alzheimer’s/dementia.
It probably would have been better for him to have passed close to when she did, but I am not the arbiter of that event. He has zero interest in continuing to live, but he has a pacemaker so he probably could not die even if he chose to. I’m confident that the place I found for them worked magnificently and was very reasonably priced and that he is comfortable and well cared for. Beyond visiting him often and accepting that he thinks I’m his brother, I don’t see much more I can do for him. The Korean woman who runs the joint is smart as hell, very observant (ex-RN for 20+ years) and is keeping him & the one other client even though she wants to retire and close the place down. I’m very grateful for all aspects of the way it all worked out. I was really, really lucky to have found it.
I was sorry to hear about your wife.
We had a well liked popular freeper about 7 years ago whose longtime wife died of uncle charlie
He followed her less than a year later
God bless lifelong love
My parents met when he threw his name and address to her out the back of the army truck he was riding in as they passed thru the small town of Alexandria, TN on 1942. They married in October of 1945. Dad died in 2006, one month shy of their 61st anniversary. Mom followed him 3 months later.
See!
We all knew it wouldn’t last!
Dementia is God’s way of saying “Just shut up and sit with me and love me”, as Jesus loves us when we’re not aware of Him. Why he gives some of us the depth/hardship of experiencing that love, and others a quick heart attack 30 years earlier, is a mystery.
we’re working at it, we have 55 years done and counting.