I saw this on the local news webpage, I thought it was touching...
Jun 8, 2008 7:29 pm US/Pacific
Husband, Wife Die Within 24-Hours Of Each Other
They were married for 65 years and in the end, Jerry Aten couldn't last a day without his wife Marilyn.
She died last month at home in bed of gastric cancer. Jerry tried to give her one last kiss, but he couldn't get out of his wheelchair. He held her hand, laid his head on her bed, and cried.
He died 23 hours later of cardiopulmonary arrest.
Jerry, 89, and Marilyn, 85, met on a blind date. He was a Michigan farm boy stationed with the Army in Northern California.
She was a small-town California girl who called him "Honey."
The were married 65 years ago in April.
Doctors said it's not uncommon for the death of one elderly spouse to make the other feel more at peace with dying.
The couple had one son, David, 61.
Jun 8, 2008 7:29 pm US/Pacific
Husband, Wife Die Within 24-Hours Of Each Other
They were married for 65 years and in the end, Jerry Aten couldn't last a day without his wife Marilyn.
She died last month at home in bed of gastric cancer. Jerry tried to give her one last kiss, but he couldn't get out of his wheelchair. He held her hand, laid his head on her bed, and cried.
He died 23 hours later of cardiopulmonary arrest.
Jerry, 89, and Marilyn, 85, met on a blind date. He was a Michigan farm boy stationed with the Army in Northern California.
She was a small-town California girl who called him "Honey."
The were married 65 years ago in April.
Doctors said it's not uncommon for the death of one elderly spouse to make the other feel more at peace with dying.
The couple had one son, David, 61.
