Henry and Jeanette De Lange both died on Sunday, July 31, just 20 minutes apart in their room at a South Dakota nursing home.
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Henry and Jeanette De Lange were married in 1953.
“It’s one of those things that you don’t pray for because it nearly seems mean, but you couldn’t ask for anything more lovely”, said Lee De Lange, son.
Henry De Lange, who himself had been in a battle with prostate cancer, was in the room when his wife passed away.
Mr De Lange said: “You don’t pray for it because it seems mean but you couldn’t ask for anything more handsome”. “We didn’t quite get done”, said one of the couple’s children, Lee De Lange.
“She passed away very, very peacefully – incredibly peacefully”.
On Monday, a funeral was held for the couple who spent 63 years married on Earth, and will spend an eternity together in death. “You don’t have to fight anymore, you can go too if you want”, Lee told KSFY.
“Wednesday, when we checked [dad] in, he said, ‘I don’t know how many more days I have, Lee”. Closed his eyes back down.
Both were at the Platte Care Center, a South Dakota-based nursing home, when their health recently began to take a turn ofr the worse. You don’t pray for it because it seems mean but you couldn’t ask for anything more lovely. “Laid back down, died about five or 10 minutes after that”, Lee told KSFY.
After living almost all of their adult lives together and dying within minutes of each other, Henry and Jeanette De Lange will now enter into eternal rest at the same time. “I wonder if he’ll go first”, Lee said.
A while after their deaths, Lee noticed something odd about the clock on the wall, according to local media.
The clock on the wall told another story. Family members said they gathered around to read Jeanette a Bible verse just before her passing. They had long and active lives.
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“Amazing. A sign from God that was the right time”.
