They died holding hands:
At 3:38 pm last Wednesday, Gordon's breathing stopped. Though he was no longer alive, his heart monitor continued to register a beat. The nurse told Gordon and Norma's son, Dennis Yeager, that the monitor was beeping "because they're holding hands, and [Norma's heart beat] is going through them," Dennis recalled in an interview with Des Moines' KCCI news station. "Her heart was beating through him." Norma died at 4:38 pm, exactly one hour later.
They had been married for 72 years. My thoughts immediately went to these lines from this amazing poem, An Arundel Tomb. Such moments, such gestures prove
Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.
The Dish 