South Dakota Couple Dies Just 20 Minutes Apart After 63 Years of Marriage Together

[In_The_Wind]

An elderly couple died just 20 minutes apart at a nursing home in Platte, South Dakota, after nearly 63 years of marriage together.

Henry De Lange, a Korean war veteran, and Jeannette De Lange, an organist and cook, first met as teenagers in '40s at a skating rink in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The two got married a few years later in October of 1953.

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/south-dakota-couple-dies-20-minutes-63-years/story?id=41233176

[mythology]

1. We should all be so lucky to have somebody for so long.

[In_The_Wind]

3. That was my first thought.

She had Alzheimer's and passed first.

After Jeanette was gone, the couple's son, Keith De Lange, turned to his father and told him he could stop fighting if he wanted to.

"My brother Keith said to my dad, 'Mom's gone to heaven. You don't have to fight anymore, you can go too if you want,' " Lee recalled.

Then, Henry opened his eyes and looked over at his beloved wife and laid back down. Five to ten minutes after that, Lee said, his father was gone. He had died at 5:30, just 20 minutes after Jeanette.

[bigwillq]

2. May they both Rest In Peace.

[KMOD]

4. You hear about stories like this from

time to time.

Love is beautiful!