New Zealand couple who were married for 67
years both died in their sleep within hours apart on June 22, after
telling family members that neither of them wanted to live without the other. Hugh
Nees, 94, and wife Joan, 92 were living at the same nursing home and died of
natural causes. "They
said they wanted to die together, and I didn't expect it to really
happen," their daughter,
Joy Reid, said. “It was just
perfect for them.” Robert Nees, their son, told Canada Journal “They were strong Christians and
therefore they knew where they were going, and they had no problem about going
there.”
The couple had five children, but only three of them have
survived. They had 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. One of their
grandchildren, 31-year-old Nick Heyward, was murdered in Argentina last year. "Nick and his brothers had
been very close to my parents, because they'd lost their mother, and my parents
gave extra support to their family," Reid
said.
Hugh, a former Baptist minister, had cancer and Joan had
a stroke a few days before she died.
Source: Canada
Journal
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