Couple Married for 62 Years Die Hand-in-Hand Dead (pics) *Graphic
 

Couple married for 62 years die together holding hands

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.

the sad reality of mortality :2 cents::2 cents:

It the human condition - knowing that we will die and yet that knowledge gives us the ability to enjoy living to the fullest knowing our time is finite.

Death is a part of the life cycle and one is lucky to live to an old age as this couple did.

We should all be as lucky as they were! :2 cents:

That's beautiful and sad at the same time. Couples holding hands at death, or even in their coffins, really gets to me somehow.

1st reply in a death thread by brasshat.Surprising! :thumbsup

The only sad part of the story is they died in Texas :2 cents:

You're getting brassmonkey all jealous ...

better than a stalker :) captainshitlick

I won't live that long... :2 cents:

Sad and very touching. Nobody should die alone

Good for them. I live with my wife for 1/4 of a century.

very sweet story! RIP to the both of them :(

To be in a loving relationship that long is a blessing.

My wife is way too young to die with me... :stoned

Some loves last a lifetime but other are meant to last an eternity.
This story gives me hope that there is still true love in this world! Unbelievable!

:bowdown ...

me as well......... RIP

Youre a lucky man in that sense :thumbsup

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