Texas Couple Who Shared a 62-Year-Long Marriage Die 90 Minutes Apart While Holding Hands

“Till Death Do Us Part” is merely a movie phrase since things don’t work that way in real life, and nobody dies for anyone else. However, a couple from Texas proved that this form of love can exist in real life as well as in books and movies.

Tom and Delma Ledbetter, a Florida-based married couple who had spent the last 62 years of their lives together, died only ninety minutes apart. They were reportedly holding hands as they died, according to doctors.

“It was exactly how they intended things to turn out. “It couldn’t have gone any better,” Donetta Nichols, their daughter, told Click2Houston. At the time of their deaths, Tom was 84 years old and Delma was 82 years old. They both died in Texas on April 21.

“They were introduced to each other by their mutual friends who also resided in Florida,” Nichols, one of their two daughters, said of her parents’ first meeting when they were in their early 20s. Their first “date” was barely a “date,” and it happened one day while Tom was relocating his car.”

“They went around two, three different blocks or something,” Nichols recalls her dad telling her, “and when they came back and parked, he leaned across and grabbed her hand and said, ‘I don’t know what made me do it.'” “I just reached over and kissed her on the cheek,” he explained.

“And that’s how their relationship started, and they got married three weeks after their first date, can you believe it?” she said with a smile.

According to their obituary, once Tom retired, he and Delma traveled around the United States, spending their golden years camping at various locations.

“When my mother became ill last month, we sought the advice of several experts, but her condition did not improve.”

“They were unable to obtain a pulse. They were unable to obtain blood pressure readings. They were unable to obtain anything. Mama, on the other hand, was clinging to something,” Nichols cried. “That something had to be her spouse, my father,” says the narrator.

“He became sick a few days after mama and we took him to the nursing home with her,” she continued. “They’d moved their small beds close, and she was lying right in front of him.” Daddy took her hand in his and simply laid there with her, and it was really sweet.”

Finally, they died away on April 21. She continued as tears streamed down her cheeks.

“They’ve been together for 62 years on this planet, and they’ll continue to share their love in Heaven.”

Source: iamnotthebabysitter.com