Posted on 11/12/2022 7:09:04 AM PST by lowbridge
An elderly Missouri man died with his wife in a house fire Thursday after he refused to escape to safety without her.
Dispatchers told Kenneth Zerr to flee his New Melle home that was quickly becoming consumed by flames, but he opted to stay inside to find his wife, Phyllis, the couple’s son told KSDK.
“The dispatch told my father to come out of the house and my father said, ‘I’m not leaving my wife’ and stayed with her. Until the end,” Andy Zerr said as he fought back tears.
Phyllis had fallen from her wheelchair onto the floor of their master bedroom, New Melle Fire Chief Dan Casey told CBS. When Kenneth couldn’t help her up, he stuffed towels under the door in an attempt to keep out the smoke.
Fire officials had entered the Tall Cedar Court home to rescue the couple, both 84, and made it into the back bedroom, but were blocked from the couple by the rapidly growing inferno, the New Melle Fire Department said.
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That’s the way we Missouri guys do it.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Romans 5
Thank you Ken. God’s Word ALWAYS fits the occasion best.
So sad for them and their family. RIP.
God bless their souls. RIP.
Both of them were 84 years old.
I would not be able to leave my husband to die alone, either. I would rather go with him.
My mom died in September. Six months later dad was gone, too. Didn’t want to live without her.
This story brings tears to my eyes. They are still together in the afterlife. RIP.
Sounds like my parents almost. My mom died 9 days after my 24th birthday and my dad died a little over a year later.
When it rains, it pours, I guess
“To stand and be still to the birkenhead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew”. RUdyard Kipling ode to HMS Birkenhead. Women and children first, men stood fast as ship sank and women and children loaded into lifeboats. Would you be disciplined enough or love enough to stand fast? Self preservation is tough to overcome, I hope I’m never put to that test.
(wipes eyes)
“Everybody wanted to be like them and everybody wanted to be with them,” Andy said. “My mom and dad were salt of the earth. They will be dearly missed. They were a pillar of the community. They were our rocks. They were our foundation. They were our wisdom.”
Together in heaven, at least eventually?
Possibly, yes.
Married after having achieved the beatific vision?
For what it’s worth, no.
Mark 12:25
Douay Rheims
For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither marry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven.
My wife and I often wake up finding that we are holding hands.I doubt I could leave her.
Would not allow her to die alone. Gave up his life to come through on that commitment. A great man.
“Would you be disciplined enough or love enough to stand fast?”
We are seniors, and have been married many, many years. As long as she draws breath, I will never leave my wife.
Is Mary still Jesus’ mother in heaven or just another soul? The martyrs for Christ? The spouse? The greatest, complete love is the beatific vision, but is every soul vanilla or are we still recognizeable as God’s love is narcotically celebrated experienced?
Who cares, but we’ll know later and it will be Good....if we are permitted.
Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven.
There is indeed a hierarchy.
Mary was a sinner, just as everyone else. Jesus called Mary woman. Not mother. John 20:13
17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.
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