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They Died As They Lived — Together

Posted by DFO

Feb. 3, 2009 1:17 p.m. • 34 comments

What got to me was the walk to the mailbox. Robert and Darlene Moser did it, hand in hand, every day of their 62-year marriage, save for the days when the mail wasn’t delivered. At night, they spooned together on the couch, Robert setting his feet on a stool they put at the end, just so he could fit beside his bride. On Jan. 23, Darlene Moser, 80, succumbed to cancer. Six hours later, Robert, 84, followed her in death. The five children they left behind are smiling through tears. “You know, there is so much joy in this,” their daughter, Marie Townsend, told me yesterday when I called the Mosers’ home in Kingston, Kitsap County. “It helps balance the grief for us because this was their prayer. “They prayed together that God would honor their marriage as they had”/Nicole Brodeur, Seattle Times. More here.

Question: Do you know a long-married couple whose life together epitomizes what marriage should be about?

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