Strange: This Couple Married for 73 Years and Died the Same Day, Same Hour

This 93-year-old man and his 89-year-old wife died in separate nursing homes just two minutes apart from each other.

William ‘Wild Bill’ Wilson and his wife Lillian Karr Wilson were both Alzheimer’s patients and were treated in separate nursing homesin Wilmore and Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Their son, Doug said he was first called about his father’s death on Tuesday last week then five minutes later he got another call to say his mother had passed.

A couple who were together since high school have died just two minutes apart after 73 years of marriage


He said: “We took it as a blessing because we’re going to have one funeral for both of them. We’re looking at it as a celebration of life because they had a great life.” Bill and Lillian met when they were both athletes at high school then ran off to get married. They survived a war and a number of relocations through their long marriage.

Their three sons regularly drove their mother to see her husband at the Veterans center. Doug said that, although the couple ‘didn’t have communication’, he believes they were ‘reading each other’ just by having the chance to see each other. Their family will gather for a ‘celebration of life’ service in honor of the devoted couple on Saturday.