Ever After: Wed 67 years, pair couldn’t go on without each other

[Mari333]

so beautiful to read.

Lyle Yingling died of a broken heart.

He had congestive heart failure, but his family and close friends contend that the news of his beloved wife’s death led him to heaven to be with her.

The scene in Troy, Kan., is much like one from “The Notebook,” a romantic story of two lovers who spent a lifetime together and now ever after in death.

Lyle and Arnita Yingling both passed away Saturday, within hours of each other. Mrs. Yingling never woke from her sleep that morning. The youngest sons, Jason and Jerry, left soon after to tell their father at a nursing home in Wathena, Kan.

“Dad knew it before we got there, and I firmly believe that,” Jason Yingling said.


http://www.stjoenews.net/news/2009/apr/17/ever-after-wed-67-years-pair-couldnt-go-without-ea/

[babylonsister]

1. I read the book and saw the movie.

It's nice to think there are people who are so devoted to each other after so many years. As for dying together, that's mystifying to me, but I've never walked in those shoes. So who knows?

This story seems very sad and poignant for their kids.

[sammytko]

2. my great uncle and his wife died the same day.

he died and she threw herself on him at the hospital and had a stroke and died. They had been together for a brazillion years. They never had children.

My cousin's in-laws also died on the same day. Also been married forever.

[Mari333]

3. Ive met many couples who had been married a long time and passed

over within a week of each other.
makes sense.

[AspenRose]

4. This happens a lot.

More than people realize

[pansypoo53219]

5. my grandpa made it about 8 months.

very hearty. but should have known. of course i think the weekend dealing with my paternal unit.....

[left is right]

6. Both of my parents are still alive but I can see this happening for them

I honestly believe that one will just not wake up one morning and the other will just refuse to live even one day without the other.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. If you look at your spouse and see nothing but love, it is easy to understand this remarkably common

phenomenon.

[Echo In Light]

8. I know. We've been together since teenagers in 1988, married 13 of those yrs

Best friends and lovers through and through

[a la izquierda]

9. sad for the children, but very sweet

i've been married for four years, but we've been together for ten. i hope to make it another 57 with my husband. i'd still love his 92 year old wrinkly butt. (sorry, tmi)

[lavenderdiva]

10. my parents died 4 months to the day of each other

my father died Dec 26, and my mother died the following April 26. She had a heart condition, and when I contacted her cardiologist, she said that she sees this happening quite often in long-married couples.

After my father died, my mother just gave up on any will to live, and wanted to go.

[Oilwellian]

11. Something similar happened to my paternal grandparents

My grandfather had a stroke and became blind in the 50's, leaving my grandmother to take care of him for over 20 years. They wound up in a nursing home together, she was sitting in bed having coffee one morning and had an aneurysm, dying instantly. My poor grandfather, being blind, didn't know she had died and was found having a conversation with her sitting in bed and still holding her coffee cup. (I hope this is how I go.)

Three months later, I went to the nursing home to see my grandfather and found him talking in Spanish...didn't have a clue what he was saying but he spoke it fluently and was chatting away. Suddenly, he broke out in English and said "I loved that woman with a passion." Well, as you can imagine, I started boo-hooing right on the spot and that moment has always remained with me and forever will. He died shortly thereafter but both he and my grandmother left me with a great sense of what true love and devotion in a marriage really means.