Imagine spending seven decades with someone and then dying less than five minutes apart.

That’s what happened last week to a British couple that had been married for 71 years. Wilf Russell, aged 93, died on March 29 at 6:50 a.m. Amazingly, his 91-year old wife, Vera, passed away just a few minutes later, at 6:54 a.m.

The couple were childhood sweethearts. They got engaged when they were just 16 and 18 and were married on Sept. 5, 1945. They had a family and lived together until Wilf, a veteran of World War Two, was diagnosed with dementia last year and moved into a care home in Wigston, Leicestershire.

After he stopped recognizing her during visits, Vera’s health declined as well, according to the couple’s granddaughter, Stephanie Welch. Vera was admitted to a hospital in January, just three miles from where Wilf was. She died not having been told of her husband’s death a few minutes prior.

Welch says her grandmother’s final words were about Wilf, "The last thing she said to me was: 'We're a right pair, aren't we?'” She believes Vera stayed put until the time was right. "I think she was waiting for him to go. She was broken-hearted."

awww...continues in heaven.

So touched.

I pray mine can be better than dt with good health, fear and love of God @ heart...Amin

Yeah...they walked life journey together and walked each other home. Life can be good...it really can.

Awww...quite touching and emotional.


They enjoyed sweet love and care.

It's so emotional

Borrowing this lyrics from marina and the diamonds - immortal

"And if the world ends in fire and the seas are frozen in time there'll be just one survivor; the memory that I was yours and you were mine"

For something so basic as this its really hard to find this, this thread has made me depressed