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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Couple die together after 67 years of marriage

Couple die together after 67 years of marriage

YEREVAN, JUNE 26, ARMENPRESS. A devoted couple who were married for 67 years have died of natural causes within two hours of each other, in the same room at a New Year rest home. Family members said Hugh Nees, 94, and his wife Joan, 92, could not bear to spend even a day apart, and had told them they did not want to live without each other. As Armenpress reports citing “The Telegraph,” Mr Nees, who had cancer, died first in the double room they shared at Eldon Lodge rest home in Paraparaumu, north of Wellington. His wife suffered a stroke.

They had moved into the rest home from their house at nearby Waikanae just over two months ago, because of declining health. Mr Nees was a retired Baptist minister. "They were strong Christians and therefore they knew where they were going, and they had no problem about going there," their son Robert Nees said. He told the New Zealand Herald that his mother would not have known that her husband had preceded her, even though the couple "were in the same room, lying beside each other", surrounded by family.

"Their departure, it's sad but happy. Life wasn't easy for the last little while and that's over, that's all good." Asked whether they might have had any premonition of their close departure, their son said: "It's so hard to know. It almost seems like it, doesn't it?"

Their daughter Joy Reid said the timing of their deaths was a “miracle.” “They said they wanted to die together, and I didn't expect it to really happen. It was just perfect for them.” The couple had five children, two of whom died before them. They also lost a grandson, 31-year-old Nicholas Heyward, who was shot dead by robbers on a motorcycle in Argentina last year. Mr and Mrs Nees were both keen gardeners and played golf in their younger days. A service to celebrate their lives will be held on June 30 at the Baptist church in Waikanae.

 








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