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Coronavirus kills husband and wife one minute apart
Leslie and Patricia McWaters spent nearly 50 years together before dying on the same day, one minute apart
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Leslie and Patricia McWaters spent nearly 50 years together before dying on the same day, one minute apart
they spent nearly a half century side by side, and that was the case in their final moments. Patricia got Cove in 19 1st her husband, Leslie, shortly after, and in the end, they left this world together. It's beautiful, but it's just so tragic, kind of like Romeo and Juliet. And like the star crossed lovers, Leslie and Patricia MK Walters died a minute apart. One wouldn't have wanted to be without the other. The couple was married for more than 47 years, inseparable since the day they met. The great grand parents passed away in the hospital from Cove in 19. But I can tell you this that when they passed, we really do think you know that Mom, the boss she definitely went, went to his room and took him by the hand and said, Come on L d. Let's go. Patricia was a no nonsense surgical nurse. L. D was a fun loving truck driver, and somehow their personalities were a perfect fit. Overall, I think that it was just just give and take. They pick their battles. But the coronavirus was a battle this elderly couple from Jackson couldn't beat. It's tough enough to lose one parent, but this was the worst. And like the thousands of Michiganders who've lost loved ones to the virus, Joanna says, it's agonizing. Thio here, others brush off the risk. People were talking about it and not knowing that my parents were in the hospital, both fighting for their lives with it. And it was just I just had tears streaming down my cheeks. Listening to them are into your family is just completely devastated. I'm pre man local four.