93-yr-old Wilf Russell and his 91-yr-old wife Vera died last week in Leicester, England, just four minutes each other.
Wilf died in the Magna Care Home and Vera died down the road at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
“My granddad was diagnosed with dementia a year ago and he had to go into the care home a couple of months back,” the couple’s granddaughter, Stephanie Welch, told the Leicester Mercury newspaper.
“My nan went to see him recently and he didn’t recognise her at all – her health started deteriorating from that day.”
The couple met in their teens and went on to have three sons (two of whom are still alive), five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
“They had a lot in common and never spent a night apart throughout their marriage until Wilf had to move into a care home,” their granddaughter concluded.