Meet Couple Who Have Been Married for 73 Years & Died Just 28 Hours Apart
Helen and Joe Auer’s love was so strong, not even the finality of death could keep them apart, people reports. Married for 73 years, Helen died at 94 in their home on October 15. Her husband, Joe, found her, kissed her and told her to call him home. 100 year old Joe died less than two days later, precisely, 28 hours after his wife’s death.
In their 73 years together, the Auers’ relationship outlasted the Depression and World War II, in which Joe spent over three years fighting. During Joe’s deployment, Helen welcomed the pair’s second child, and she sent her husband a photo of herself with their two kids. Joe carried that photo through the war, and he continued to keep the worn picture in his wallet until the day he died.
The couple welcomed 10 kids into the world over their long lives together, and they are survived by 9 of those children, along with 16 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
Their family says the couple’s loyalty to one another allowed them to gently weather any troubles life sent their way for the over 7 decades they shared.
They will be remembered together with a joint funeral at the same church in Cincinnati, Ohio, where they exchanged vows in 1941.
Source: people.com