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Married 74 years, CdA couple die 4 days apart

Ralph Wells and his wife, Irene, died within four days of each other in Hospice care earlier this month. Ralph was 93 and Irene was 99. (Shawn Gust / Coeur d'Alene Press)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
Ralph Wells and his wife, Irene, died within four days of each other in Hospice care earlier this month. Ralph was 93 and Irene was 99. (Shawn Gust / Coeur d'Alene Press)
Ralph Wells and his wife, Irene, died within four days of each other in Hospice care earlier this month. Ralph was 93 and Irene was 99. (Shawn Gust / Coeur d'Alene Press)

In Wednesday’s Press, a unique double death notice was published. Irene and Ralph Wells, 99 and 93, respectively, died four days apart. Irene passed at 4:45 a.m. on Jan. 10 and Ralph followed closely behind, passing at 5:45 p.m. Jan. 14. “He knew he did not want to be here without her,” said Ralph and Irene’s oldest child, Sharon Steward of Coeur d’Alene. “Everything they did was together.” Steward, 73, gathered with her sister, Robin Gagnon, 70, and niece, Karen Kahler, 50, in her parents’ Coeur d’Alene home Thursday to share some memories and start the process of “shoveling out” the house, as her father would say/ Devin Heilman , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

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