After 62 years of marriage, couple dies together while holding hands [TX]

www.ksat.com ^ | Updated: 5:17 PM, May 09, 2017 | By Chip Brewster

[Red Badger]

Pair dies less than 1 hour 30 minutes apart

LAKE JACKSON, Texas - After nearly 62 years of marriage, Lake Jackson couple Tom and Delma Ledbetter left this world about two weeks ago.

“Mama was from Nebraska, and daddy was from Arkansas,” said Donetta Nichols.

Nichols is one of the Ledbetters' daughters. She tells us the couple first met in their early 20s through mutual friends.

“He was stationed in Florida and my mother and her girlfriend had moved to Florida,” she said.

Their first date of sorts happened when Tom had to “just move his car.”

“They drove around two, three different blocks or whatever and they came back and they parked and he said he reached over and he grabbed her hand and he said, 'I don't know what made me do it.' He said, 'I just reached over and gave her a kiss on the cheek,'” Nichols said.

Three weeks later, they were married. Two daughters soon followed, then grandchildren and then great-grandchildren. It was a life filled with love and laughter. Then, in April of this year, Delma fell ill and did not recover.

“They couldn't get a pulse. They couldn't get a blood pressure. They couldn't get anything. Yet mama was just hanging on to something,” said Donetta.

A few days later, Tom too fell ill.

“We got him over to the nursing home with Mama. They had pushed their little beds together and Mama was laying right there, facing him. She was asleep and Daddy goes and he reached over there and he grabbed ahold of her hand and he just laid there with her, and it was so sweet,” Nichols said.

Not long after, Tom died. Delma followed, not even an hour and a half later. Their lives ended the same way their relationship began – holding hands.

“I mean, it was exactly how they wanted to go. It couldn't have been any better,” Nichols said.

From hospice to funeral home to final resting place, Tom and Delma didn't leave each other's side. Now, at Restwood Memorial Park, they'll never have to.

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The most significant reason I've observed over the past 56 years, is that Feminism benefits from the  religious castration of We the [conservative] People's ability to wield Logic and Reason, supported by reproductive science.

Fallible and uninspired self-worshiping theocrats, whose world view is propped up the silly notion that the world is only 6000 year old, have assumed dominion over the faith of others.

Young folks who, like Galileo, believe what their own eyes and free minds see... tend to, sometimes, being misled into tossing the baby with the bath water.

The baby in this case being - Marriage, which is modeled after Christ's relationship with His body, the Church; constituted by free Individuals whose personal relationship with Him is not governed by the coercion of the fallible and uninspired's various state-establishments.

Christian Marriage, and its associated reproductive strategy, manifests the highest sociobiological fitness in the history of humanity.  Why is that?

Seems to me it's because the Word, the creator of Natural Law, wrote the instruction manual...

Mark 10:6-9

6 "But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'a 7 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,b 8 and the two will become one flesh.'c So they are no longer two, but one. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

NIV