This touching love story will make you feel a tear in your eye. Vera and Wilf Russel were together for 71 years till death did them part — can you imagine spending this amount of time with your partner?
Wilf, who used to work as an engineer, suffered from dementia and spent his last days in a care house. After Wilf couldn’t recognize his wife, when she visited him, Vera began to struggle with health issues as well. Since that moment, every single lonely day made Vera feel worse.
When Wilf passed away in the care house, being 93 years old, Vera, 91, died in a hospital four minutes later, being only 3 miles away from him and not knowing that her husband had just gone! Their granddaughter, Stephanie Welch, admits that her granny was grief-stricken, worrying about her husband’s condition, and the last thing Stephanie heard from Vera when she came to the hospital to visit her, was: “We’re a right pair, aren’t we?” The members of their big family plan to organize a joint funeral for this great couple to let them stay together after leaving this world, too.
