Posted on 10/31/2007 7:35:24 PM PDT by EveningStar
During their 71 years of marriage, Don and Myrtle Rutledge rarely spent any time apart...
So it was fitting, then, that when Don died just after 11:30 a week ago Monday night, Myrtle passed away just four hours and five minutes later...
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I sympathize :)
35 years wasn’t even half-way!
I can’t imagine life without my wife. :)
God grant them peace and rest.
BUMP!
Quick math says that they were 19 and 17 when married. Imagine how judging people would about it today.
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The strangest case I ever read about was a young married couple where the husband died from electrocution at a construction site, and his wife died at home from an asthma attack at about the same time.
Thanks for posting. That seems like the dream we all have.
My Aunt’s husband who she married 7 weeks ago died yesterday. She’d been “dating” him for 15 years. Jack was a vet and a pretty fun/funny guy on the occasions I met him.
I’m concerned for my mother’s sister.
They got married because my Aunt found Jack blue in the living room a few months back. She is a registered nurse, gave him CPR and brought him back. He crashed again a week later after being under a drs care...and they had him on various drugs. He wanted to make sure my Aunt got his pension and assets so he finally stood up. His actual comment on the issue “I’ve been dodging her advances for 15 years now, she wore me out” Both of them are in their seventies...you have to know that to see the humor.
This time apparently was it. RIP Jack. He was an entertaining individual who saw combat in Korea. He was a very staunch anti-commie. God speed Jack.
I just found some similarities and Jack’s passing is on my mind.
They walked “The Last Mile Together”,,not very many do that..
A “Dupraas” as Vonnegut called it, or rather as Kilgore Trout described it.
Wow! 71 years. And I thought we were doing well at 36 years. God bless them. Umm. I guess he did.
Yes. I remember. :)
I am happy for them. I doubt they would have wanted it any other way.
That's so true. My wife and I were each one year younger when we got married. I was 18 and she was 16(no she wasn't pregnant lol). Most all family and friends acted negative toward us about it, and some were outright hostile. I'm pleased to say that 13 years and 5 children later that my wife and I are as happy with one another as the day we met, and most of the people who acted the worst about my wife and I getting married so young have since been married and divorced, some of them multiple times. I would love to think that we will be together as long as the couple in the article.
Good evening and the very best to you and yours.
Semper Fi
Tommie
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