DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa couple married for 72 years died holding hands in a Des Moines hospital within 70 minutes of each other last week after a car accident that also injured another couple.
"They're very old-fashioned. They believed in marriage 'til death do you part," Dennis Yeager, the son of Gordon and Norma Yeager, told KCCI.com.
The accident that claimed Gordon, 94, and Norma Yeager, 90, happened Oct. 12, when the couple left their State Center home for a drive shortly after 8 a.m. At the intersection of Highway 30 and Jessup Avenue, just west of Marshalltown, Gordon pulled "away from the stop sign and failed to yield to a westbound vehicle," according to Sgt. Joel Ehler of the Iowa State Patrol.
My family hails from the Great State of Iowa. Love & marriage are forever in the heartland. Your word is your honor bound duty to loved ones and strangers alike. Something those fools in DC don't understand.
ReplyDeleteAwww...that's sweet! Don't see that much anymore. Marriage is no longer sacred as it used to be!
ReplyDeleteAwww...that's sweet! Don't see that much anymore. Marriage is no longer sacred as it used to be!
ReplyDeleteI agree......