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Friday 3 July 2015

The Final Embrace: Husband and wife Who Were Married for 75 Years Die in Each Other's Arms Just Hours Apart

PICTURED: The dying embrace of husband and wife who were married for 75 years and died
Jeanette Toczko, 96, and her 95-year-old husband, Alexander Toczko, from San Diego, California, died just hours apart as they held hands in bed. The pair spent their lives in love after becoming boyfriend and girlfriend when they were only eight years old. Pictured: The couple are pictured on their wedding day in 1940 (inset).

A poignant photo emerged which showing the elderly couple who were married for 75 years fulfilling their final wishes to die together.
Jeanette Toczko, 96, and her 95-year-old husband, Alexander Toczko, from San Diego, California, died just hours apart as they held hands in bed.
The pair spent their lives in love after becoming boyfriend and girlfriend when they were only eight years old. 

But several weeks ago, Mr Toczko suffered a broken hip in a fall and was left bed-bound. A local hospice delivered a special bed to his home, which staff pushed up next to his beloved wife's bed.
As Mr Toczko's condition quickly declined, Mrs Toczko's own health took a turn for the worse. The couple had always said they wished to die 'in their own bed, holding hands, in each other's arms'.
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Dying wish: Jeanette Toczko, 96, and her 95-year-old husband, Alexander Toczko, from San Diego, California, who were married for 75 years have fulfilled their final wish to die in each other's arms after they passed away clutching hands, within hours of each other, in their bed (pictured)
Dying wish: Jeanette Toczko, 96, and her 95-year-old husband, Alexander Toczko, from San Diego, California, who were married for 75 years have fulfilled their final wish to die in each other's arms after they passed away clutching hands, within hours of each other, in their bed (pictured)
Childhood sweethearts: Jeanette and Alexander Toczko (both pictured above), aged 96 and 95 respectively
Childhood sweethearts: Jeanette and Alexander Toczko (both pictured above), aged 96 and 95 respectively
Declining health: The couple, from San Diego, spent their lives in love after becoming boyfriend and girlfriend when they were only eight. Above, the couple are seen sitting in their home, in ill health, earlier this month
Declining health: The couple, from San Diego, spent their lives in love after becoming boyfriend and girlfriend when they were only eight. Above, the couple are seen sitting in their home, in ill health, earlier this month

And in scenes reminiscent of the 2004 film The Notebook, they passed away while clutching hands earlier this month: Mr Toczko on June 17, as he lay beside his wife; and Mrs Toczko, the next day.
The couple's daughter, Aimee Toczko-Cushman, described the moment she told her mother she had lost her husband, who kept a photo of Mrs Toczko at her Holy Communion in his wallet.
'I told my mother he was gone,' she told 10 News. 'She hugged him and she said, "See this is what you wanted. You died in my arms and I love you. I love you, wait for me, I'll be there soon".'


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