Texas couple married for 62 years die 90 minutes apart | Daily Mail Online
Tom and Delma Ledbetter met while in their early 20s and living in Florida
Tom held Delma's hand on their first 'date' and they married three weeks later
They had two daughters, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren
Within days of Delma falling ill in April, Tom got sick and joined her at the hospice
Tom passed away first, with Delma following just an hour and a half later
Their relationship started and ended with the loving couple holding hands
A married couple who spent the last 62 years of their lives together held hands as they died about an hour apart from each other.
Holding hands on their deathbeds ? the loving gesture that kicked off Tom and Delma Ledbetter's relationship all those years ago ? was a fitting way to mark the last thing the couple would ever do together on this earth.
'It was exactly how they wanted to go. It couldn't have been any better,' their daughter Donetta Nichols told us.