A 100-year-old couple who had been married for nearly eight decades died within hours of one another in the same hospice after "a long happy life together".
Centenarians June and Hubert Malicote from Ohio, US, had been husband and wife for 79 years and shared three children together, as well as seven grandchildren, the Mirror reports.
Their son Sam, 76, said that his mother had become very ill the day after Thanksgiving and was admitted to the Hospice of Hamilton in Ohio for end of life care.
He revealed that his father was devastated by the news of his wife's poor health and ''broke down'' before soon being transferred to the same hospice himself.
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