The husband and wife who died as they lived, inseparably: Couple of 62 years finish their life together by dying just four hours apart and still holding hands

The husband and wife who died as they lived, inseparably: Couple of 62 years finish their life together by dying just four hours apart and still holding hands

The family of California couple Don and Maxine Simpson said they knew the two would have wanted to be together at the end, and so moved them from hospital to a relative's home in beds side-by-side. Together over six decades, the pair had both deteriorated over the last two weeks, after Don fell and broke his hip and Maxine's cancer progressed. Maxine died first, holding her husband's hand, and as her body was being wheeled out the room, Don took his last breath. The pair had met at Bakersfield bowling alley around 1950.