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Couple married 67 years dies holding hands
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:24 pm
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Floyd and Violet Hartwig's marriage spanned 67 years, but their love for one another appears timeless.
Sensing that the couple was close to death, their children pushed their two hospice beds together and gently placed their father's hand in the mother's palm. Floyd, 90, died first. Violet, 89, followed five hours later. They had a good life and died Feb. 11 at home, just as they had wished, the family said.
"They wanted to go together," their daughter, Donna Scharton, said Thursday. "It was meant to be that way."
The two knew each other as children, growing up in the Central California farming community of Easton. Romance sparked at a local dance hall one night when Floyd, a decorated Navy sailor, was home on shore leave. They were married on Aug. 16, 1947, and Floyd showered Violet with affection from afar through love letters that the family still cherishes.
Returning home for good, the two raised three children on their small farm, growing cotton and raising turkeys. Violet helped on the ranch and kept the house. She prepared breakfast early each morning for her husband, seeing him off to work as a ranch foreman and delivering eggs.
"They were dedicated to each other," Scharton said. "Even other people who met them said they had that connection."
The two, who had four grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren, remained active until recently. Around the holidays, the family noticed that Violet's dementia had turned for the worse, and in late January a doctor said Floyd's failing kidneys gave him two weeks more to live.
The family moved the couches from the living room of their ranch house, making space for the hospice beds. Cynthia Letson said that after her grandfather passed, they told her grandmother, as she faded, that she could go too. They told Violet that Floyd was waiting for her.
Letson said her grandparents are a positive example at a time with too many broken marriages.
"It would be nice if the world got back to the core of marriage," Letson said. "I don't think people realize that anymore. They need to go back to the basics that marriage is forever."
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:25 pm to Jim Rockford
Nicholas Sparks already bought the novel rights.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:28 pm to Jim Rockford
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Sensing that the couple was close to death, their children pushed their two hospice beds together and gently placed their father's hand in the mother's palm.
Eh feels a little cheap given this sentence
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:29 pm to Larry
i rather go down holding the tittay
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:29 pm to Jim Rockford
So they left ole Violet holding a dead dudes hand for 5 hours. That's kinda creepy.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:30 pm to Jim Rockford
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"It would be nice if the world got back to the core of marriage," Letson said. "I don't think people realize that anymore. They need to go back to the basics that marriage is forever."
this
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:37 pm to Chad504boy
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i rather go down holding the tittay
The wife's or the 25 year old nurse's?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:42 pm to BeerMoney
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The wife's or the 25 year old nurse's?
In my grief, do I know what I'm doing?
Great story, OP.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:52 pm to Jim Rockford
save money and bury them together.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:54 pm to Jim Rockford
Married 67 years.....they probably hated eachother and welcomed the freedom of death.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:58 pm to Nativebullet
My best friends grandparents died together when we were young. Not the happiest story though.
The wife was bed-rest and in poor health. The husband wasn't great, but didn't have any ailings that gave a hint of him dying soon. The husband slept in the bed with her still at night and passed away in his sleep one night. The wife found out in the morning, was heartbroken and died crying within an hour of finding out.
The wife was bed-rest and in poor health. The husband wasn't great, but didn't have any ailings that gave a hint of him dying soon. The husband slept in the bed with her still at night and passed away in his sleep one night. The wife found out in the morning, was heartbroken and died crying within an hour of finding out.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:58 pm to Slingin Pickle
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they probably hated eachother and welcomed the freedom of death.
Such a witty response.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 4:02 pm to Jim Rockford
He was probably cheating on that slut.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 4:09 pm to LSUballs
She probably died first and was still able to suck the life out of him in death
Posted on 2/26/15 at 4:18 pm to Jim Rockford
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Couple married 67 years dies holding hands
That's how I want to go....holding my playstation.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 5:01 pm to Jim Rockford
The jokes in this thread made me laugh, but the story is great. Thanks for posting it.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 5:14 pm to Jim Rockford
I was listening to a comedian the other day describe marriage.
"It's no longer 'until death do us part' and the vows for the man should change to ' DO you take this woman for as long as she puts up with you, and then after she leaves do you agree to pay for her house and car while she is fricking randoms with your kids downstairs watching Lion King?"
"It's no longer 'until death do us part' and the vows for the man should change to ' DO you take this woman for as long as she puts up with you, and then after she leaves do you agree to pay for her house and car while she is fricking randoms with your kids downstairs watching Lion King?"
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