'Till Death Do US Part!!

Gordon and Norma Yeager were practically inseparable from the day they married in 1939 and that devotion lasted to their final hour in an Iowa hospital.

While Gordon was the life of the party, Norma provided the steady hand that kept their family of four together during the seventy-two years of their marriage. According to their son Dennis,

"They just loved being together. Everybody argues once in awhile, but they still, he said 'I have to stick around. I can't go until she does because I have to stay here for her and she would say the same thing,'"

Following a car accident, the couple was rushed to the hospital and put in the same intensive care unit where they lay holding hands until Gordon passed away at 3:38 pm. The family surrounding them was confused that he was still registering a heartbeat without breathing, until doctors explained the heartbeat was that of Norma, who died exactly an hour later and never let go until the end.

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