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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Just a Sweet Story!
A devoted Iowa couple married for 72 years died holding hands in the hospital last week, exactly one hour apart.
The passing reflected the nature of their marriage, where, "As a rule, everything was done together," said the couple's daughter Donna Sheets, 71.
Gordon Yeager, 94, and his wife Norma, 90, left their small town of State Center, Iowa, on Wednesday to go into town, but never made it. A car accident sent the couple to the emergency room and intensive care unit with broken bones and other injuries. But, even in the hospital, their concerns were each other.
"She was saying her chest hurt and what's wrong with Dad? Even laying there like that, she was worried about Dad," said the couple's son, Dennis Yeager, 52. "And his back was hurting and he was asking about Mom."
When it became clear that their conditions were not improving, the couple was moved into a room together in beds side-by-side where they could hold hands.
"They joined hands; his right hand, her left hand," Sheets said.
Gordon Yeager died at 3:38 p.m. He was no longer breathing, but the family was surprised by what his monitor showed.
"Someone in there said, 'Why, then, when we look at the monitor is the heart still beating?'" Sheets recalled. "The nurse said Dad was picking up Mom's heartbeat through Mom's hand."
"And we thought, 'Oh my gosh, Mom's heart is beating through him,'" Dennis Yeager said.
Norma Yeager died exactly an hour later.
"Dad used to say that a woman is always worth waiting for," Dennis Yeager said. "Dad waited an hour for her and held the door for her."
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| October 19, 2011, 19:58 |
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Re: Just a Sweet Story!
I saw that earlier. Amazing, huh?
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| October 19, 2011, 20:05 |
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Re: Just a Sweet Story!
Sniff, sniff...very sweet!
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| October 19, 2011, 20:29 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Just a Sweet Story!
Great story.With all the divorces these days its always a shock when people have a long happy marriage.
There are those who you just know are different than the average couple. Just by seeing them together you know they belong together. Its interesting to watch couples like that. I have seen it a few times. My mother and father. (He was technically my step father but we didn't feel that way)They were so close and always held hands. Unfortunately my Dad died quit young. My mother never really got over it. She just can't see herself with anyone else. My in-laws were that way. They were together many years. My mother in law died unexpectedly. A short time later my father in law started getting much sicker than he had been. Although he had several health problems it was more like he died of a broken heart and just didn't want to be here without her.When he was close to his death he would lay in bed and we would hear him talking. When we would ask who he was talking to he said he was talking to Mary (My mother in-law).She had been dead for months.He would say she told him she was waiting for him and it was okay to go now.
I know of another couple like that now and I just smile when I see them.You can just tell they love being with each other even after almost 50 years.
It's hard to be cynical when you read stories about a couple like the one Kiss wrote about or when you know people like the couples I have known.
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| October 19, 2011, 23:15 |
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slowpoke2
52 / male
aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Re: Just a Sweet Story!
nice story, so sweet, i had tears reading it
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| October 20, 2011, 01:28 |
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marcopolo2010
78 / couple
lynnwood, Washington, US
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Re: Just a Sweet Story!
i saw that story also .......
those two had something that most of us can
only dream about ....... but what a "lovely dream".
such an incredible bond .....
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| October 20, 2011, 01:37 |
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alwaysnaked
65 / male
Sandy Beach, Florida, US
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Re: Just a Sweet Story!
My parents were married for 64 years...amazing in this day of 72 day Weddings ... 
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| November 19, 2011, 22:06 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Just a Sweet Story!
we just had some older folks he died in a house fire and his 82 year old wife servived , going to read up on it to see what happen
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| November 19, 2011, 22:18 |
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catlady
60 / female
rostraver/belle vernon, Pennsylvania, US
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Re: Re: Just a Sweet Story!
QUOTE (alwaysnaked @ November 19, 2011, 22:06)My parents were married for 64 years...amazing in this day of 72 day Weddings ...
That is cool
off topic:
you are not always naked if you have tan lines
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| November 20, 2011, 01:43 |
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