Your Morning Cry: After 70 Years Together, Couple Dies 15 Hours Apart
LatestGo ahead and grab a tissue, because this real-life version of the couple from The Notebook is almost certainly going to bring tears to your eyes: An Ohio couple who’d been married for seven decades recently died within a day of one another.
Helen and Kenneth Felumlee (92 and 91, respectively) met at 19 and 18 and married in 1944, according to the Zanesville Times Recorder. They eloped, but were so nervous it took several weeks to tell their parents. Over the years they had 8 children; Kenneth often worked two jobs. They traveled the country by bus after retiring in 1983. The couple were willing to go to great lengths to be together: