After 63 years of marriage, Platte couple dies 20 minutes apart
It's one of those stories that rarely comes around once in a lifetime. A story of an elderly man and woman with incredible faith and 63 years of marriage.
As their health got worse, their faith and love for God, their family and each other grew stronger until the very end.
After they married in 1953, the journey of life took Henry and Jeanette De Lange to Platte, South Dakota. He was a Korean War Veteran. She was a musician, worked at the Platte Care Center and took care of their five children.The clock read 5:30 p.m. when Henry De Lange went to heaven — 20 minutes after his beloved wife.
“It’s one of those things that you don’t pray for because it almost seems mean — but you couldn’t ask for anything more beautiful,” Lee De Lange said.
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