Devoted couple married for 56 years die within a minute of each other

A devoted couple married for 56 years died within a minute of each other. Donald Dix, 85, collapsed at home and wife Rosemary dialled 999 for an ambulance.

Shocked Rosemary, 76, called their daughter with the bad news as her husband was driven off - but she was found dead with the phone still off the receiver.



Tragically Donald died in the ambulance on the way to hospital at almost exactly the same time Rosemary died.

Daughter Jacqueline said: 'They didn't know how to live without each other.
It seems as if they died at the same time.' The family said it was a 'mercy' that neither knew the other had died - nor go through the pain of mourning at a funeral.