A couple who were married 62 years died four hours apart while lying next to each other, their family said.
Don and Maxine Simpson’s granddaughter, Melissa Sloan, first shared the couple’s story with KERO-TV and it quickly went viral.
“It’s absolutely beautiful, and the story is beautiful,” Sloan told the television channel.
Two weeks ago Don fell and broke his hip at home, and his health quickly deteriorated following the fall.
At the same time his wife Maxine’s cancer progressed, which she’d been battling since the start of the year.
I really wish my marriage would have lasted that long. After a few years and a young family my husband walked out without a conscience.
So sorry.
It takes two people to make a marriage succeed and only one to make it fail.
You are not to be blamed for another person’s wrong doing.
We cannot always avoid what happens to us in life. But we do have control over how we respond to what happens. Let the world see are a victor not a victim by triumphing over your circumstances and being a truly good person.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. International Evangelist.
Anonymous:
It takes two people to make a marriage succeed and only one to make it fail.
You are not to be blamed for another person’s wrong doing.
We cannot always avoid what happens to us in life. But we do have control over how we respond to what happens. Let the world see are a victor not a victim by triumphing over your circumstances and being a truly good person.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. International Evangelist.
Thank you for giving us this beautiful story.
It is an example to the world of what God intends marriage to be. My wife and I have been married for 50 wonderful years. I hope we do as well as the Simpsons. They were truly awesome.
With all the marital failures and negativity in society today we need to see more of this.
May God bless Don and Maxine Simpson’s family. Let the memories left to them guide their lives.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. International Evangelist.
In this world its very rare to here of love like that. Imagine being married to the same person for 62 years.
They took those vows literally and still look so cute in this picture. It would have been nice to read their story…
Awwww so sweet
Real true love. They ended their life in an excellent manner. If one lived longer than the other, that partner would pine. God arranges all things. May their souls rest in peace.
A few years in winter, on a snowy day, as I was leaving a store I met a lady who spoke to me. I stopped to talk to her. She told me she is Greek. During the conversation she told me about her parents and that they were ailing. One died during the day and the other died that evening. Their funeral service and burial took place on the same day; no doubt buried side by side. They were also married for as long as this couple.
As seen on TV, there are a few married couples, still alive who were married for as long who celebrate those golden years of marriage. They have a message for the world: “Sincere love, consideration, understanding and compromising” – faithful to the end.
Those godly virtues, if practiced will see all of us through life, happily and peacefully.
What a message it is
These are values we should promote.
I sometimes tell Sarah my precious wife of over 50 years “We preach more by what we do than by what we say.”
Dominica is producing some bright young people who are getting an education and distinguishing themselves
in various fields at home and abroad. How do I know? I
follow them on the radar (DNO)! So much good stuff is happening on your island.
All who are older – parents, guardians, pastors, teachers, counselors, all who are in positions of trust who are seen as roll models and mentors, must seize the day by reinforcing the moral foundation of the nation. The children must be taught the moral code God has given us in the New Testament because it is the blueprint for successful living.
Don and Maxine Simpson did this by their example.
St. Frances said “Preach the gospel. If necessary use words.”
I invite you to visit our website http://www.livinghopeministeries.ca
Click onto ARTICLES.
Read my ARTICLE “Things That Cannot be Shaken”.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. International Evangelist.
in sickness and in happiness. till death do us part.
AMEN
Sincerely, Rev. Don Hill
This is truly the beauty of life…..till death do us part! True gentleman to the end…..ladies first!
Through this story, we learn that it is definitely Love–which is of God–that bonds two people in marriage; not the many carnal rituals that takes place in a Church House, and other placers-man with man, woman with woman–but God forbid.
It is Love that motivates our desire to spend Life together till death do us part; human affection is what’s sending people to the altar of marriage today, but human affection is here today and gone tomorrow.
Those carnal marriages are the ones by which we hear two people cursing and raging against each other. Cheating or adultery starts hampering with the marriage; until you hear those two people saying: “I don’t love you anymore”–because Love had nothing to do with it in the first place.
I give thanks to God for a mom and dad who conceived me in love, followed by 9 of us who are adults and alive today.
My mom passed away at 80 years last July 2013; my dad remains at 82 years old this past June, with his 8 girls and 2 boys alive and well–we sometimes have issues but nothing that we cannot overcome for we are bonded in Love
I know that God continues to bless us with His Life in Love–the Cord of both physical and Spiritual existence in us, that Cord can never be broken. Thanks to You dear Lord!
Sa c’est ” The Notebook” man !
This is what you call LOVE, and TIL DEATH DO US PART. May their souls rest in peace, together.
I love that part ” Till Death separate us”
This is awesome. the usual would be to say, “Till death do us part” but these two have beat the odds and did not even part at death. Waw!
Is this the “note book” story?
WOOOWWWW…I am only 24 but I hope I find a husband that I can be like this with for the rest of my life. It seems as though my generation is doomed with all this technology and stuff….but hopefully we still have some good ones left.
awww… snif snif
this is so touching!
that was real love