Husband, 84, and wife, 80, die holding hands on the same day after being married for 59 years

A couple who were married 59 years died last month holding hands in their shared hospital room.

Don and Margaret Livengood, ages 84 and 80, charmed the workers at Carolinas Healthcare NorthEast, so someone pulled strings to let the ailing husband and wife share their last days together in the same room.


Nurses positioned the couple's beds to face each other, so that they were holding hands as Margaret passed just before 8am on August 19. 

That afternoon at 5.19pm, her husband followed her in death, telling his children and grandchildren before he died that he was looking forward to joining his wife in heaven. 

'When we get to heaven, we can walk in together, just like we're getting married again. Another honeymoon,' Don said, according to his daughter Pattie Livengood Beaver, who spoke with People.

Beaver and her husband moved in with her parents last year, when both became sick. Her father had pulmonary fibrosis and bilateral pneumonia when he died, while her mother was diagnosed with cancer in May and had several other serious health issues.  

Culled from Daily Mail