Posted on 08/08/2015 2:41:23 PM PDT by lowbridge
A 90-year-old man pulled his wife of 68 years to safety in her wheelchair as a fire ravaged their North Carolina home.
Arthur Schneider jumped into action after a lightning storm hit a street transformer, causing flames to crawl through his Asheboro house, he told the Daily News Saturday.
Arthur immediately thought of his wife Rosemary, 89, who has Parkinson’s disease and dementia. She was all the way at the back of the house and cannot walk.
“I had to go back and get her,” Arthur said. “She’s part of me.”
The smoke alarms “were all buzzing” as the power went out, forcing Schneider to have to feel his way around as he couldn’t even see “my hand in front of my face,” he said.
Arthur, who grew up in the Bronx, wheeled Rosemary out to the front porch and ran across his yard — which is “the size of a football field ” — to get help from a neighbor, his daughter Bernadette Such said. He made the dash without his cane, despite his "terrible limp," she said.
The neighbor helped bring Rosemary off the porch, which isn’t wheelchair accessible, and called 911.
Half the house was destroyed in the fire, and the couple is staying with Such, who lives eight miles away.
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Did his cat call 911?
But the left insists that bruce jenner is the template for heroic behavior.
God bless and keep the Schneider’s.
Yep, I’d do the same for mine or die trying.
For better or for worse, in sickness or in health. Till death do you part.
Beautiful story. God bless both of them.
Moral of the story, they should have been dead 15 years ago according to Democrats.
God bless these people.
Each day we spend billions seeking more of the greatest secrets of the universe, and the most important one of them is right in front of us for free.
In reality, none of the others mean anything without it.
“I had to go back and get her,” Arthur said. “She’s part of me.”
How sweet.
“I had to go back and get her,” Arthur said. “She’s part of me.”
In other words, it was his wife and it was his utmost
obligation to give his own life to save hers.
Well whop de do. Trying to take credit for something
he should have done anyway no matter what. Who does this
guy think he is?/s.
This guy is 90, she’s 89 and has Parkinson’s and dementia, and he does all this for her. Then there’s Thad Cochran. ‘Nuff said.
Now this is a man.
A good man!
This is what marriage actually is. If only our country had not despised it.
Ha! Husband & I have been married almost 51 yrs. He hadn’t quite figured on a woman who would hold his feet to the fire & the wedding vows made before God & man. - When you go to getting old you need each other. You shore each other up. - This business today of tossing each other in the garbage can at the court house is folly. - The man - or woman - you’ve got your eye on today instead of your spouse - may or may not stick with you. - Be good to each other & tough it out!
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