AUGUSTA , Gerogia (CNN) — A love to last a lifetime a Georgia couple married for 71 years died within hours of each other. Husband Herbert Delaigle died at 2:20 a.m. Friday. 12 hours later, his wife, Frances, died at 2:20 p.m.
They met when Herbert was 22 and Frances just 16. Their family issued a statement saying, “it’s amazing how they were together for 71 years and now they are together in heaven. What an amazing love story that is.”