Couple Married 72 Years Dies Together Holding Hands – Inspirational Video
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a true real-life love story comes around
just once in a great while a family in
state center watched one unfold the past
seven decades gordon and norma a girl
lived the love story up until the moment
they died they got married here in state
center may 26 1939 in this house on the
day she graduated from high school Norma
stock said yes to gordon Yeager
they’re very old-fashioned they believed
in marriage till death do you part
Dennis Yeager was the last of four
children born to Gordon and Norma his
sister Donna was first born staying
together for 72 years I’d say is good
and nowadays that’s exceptional the way
the kids tell it dad was the life of the
party mom kept everything together
anybody come over she was the one the
hostess with the mostess she just
seriously the more she did that the more
she smiled dad would be the center of
attention gone he look at me and moms
like get him away from me you know we
even got a picture like that Norma
didn’t really want the distance she
hardly left his side for 72 years they
just just loved being together you know
even like everybody argues once in a
while but they still you know he always
said I have to stick around until you
know I can’t go until she does because I
got to stay here for her and she would
say the same thing it’s almost as if
they knew last Wednesday they left home
to go into town somehow there was an
accident there at the intersection of
Highway 30 and Jessup Avenue just west
of Marshalltown state troopers say
Gordon pulled in front of an oncoming
car I rest from Des Moines where I was
working and saw him in the hospital in
the intensive care unit of marshal towns
hospital nurses knew not to separate
Gordon and Norma they brought him in the
same room and intensive care and put
them together and then they were holding
hands in intensive care and then you
know with the morphine and everything
then they were not really responsive
Gordon died at 338 holding hands with
his wife the family they built
surrounded them and it was really
strange that were holding hands and
dad stop breathing I couldn’t figure out
what was going on because the heart
monitor is so gone I’m really but he
isn’t breathing why would he still have
a heartbeat she checked and everything
is it well that’s because they’re
holding hands and it’s going through
them then her heart was beating through
him and picking it up they were still
getting her heartbeat through him at 448
exactly one hour after Gordon Norma
passed to neither one of them would have
wanted to be without each other I
couldn’t figure out how it was going to
work we were very blessed
honestly that they went this way they
just just loved being together at their
funeral yesterday Norma and Gordon held
hands in their casket they will be
cremated and their ashes will be mixed
together defines a love story doesn’t it
dad it is incredible thanks for that
anyway
