MONROE, NC — Eleanor and Frank Turner were born within 26 days of each other in July 1926. They wed 22 years later, starting a marriage that lasted nearly 65 years.
So it seemed fitting, relatives said, that the two would ultimately die hours apart from each other Friday, without even knowing the other’s fate.
“We’re still in shock. It doesn’t seem real to us,” said niece Carolyn Warren. “But isn’t it ironic that they both passed, one and then the other?”
Eleanor Witt Turner, 87, died first on Friday at Hospice House in Monroe, NC. Then nine hours later, her husband, Frank Eugene Turner, 87, died at Autumn Care of Marshville, NC.
Daughter Linda Purser said she was debating whether to tell her father about her mom’s early-morning death when she received a call from a nursing home saying her father had died about 1:30 p.m.
The two would have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary Dec. 24.
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