Together to the end: Husband holds hands with his beloved wife of 60 years as they died hours apart.

                                                                
For six decades, Floreen and Ed Hale have been inseparable, and even death could not keep them apart.
On February 7, Mrs Hale, 82, passed away in a Batavia, New York, hospital, with her gravely ill husband lying next to her and holding her hand until the very end.
Just 36 hours later, Ed Hale died at age 83.

'He was a gentleman right up to the end, waiting for her to go first,' the Hales' daughter Renee Hirsh told the blog Orlean Hub, which profiled her parents.
A month ago, a wheelchair-bound Mr Hale was hospitalized in Rochester, New York, with kidney failure.
On February 4, his wife was rushed to United Methodist Medical Center in Batavia 35 miles away suffering from congestive heart failure.

  When Ed Hale came to Floreen's parents to ask her hand in marriage, he was told 'no' because the young woman was recovering from a horrific car accident, but the suitor changed his future in-laws' mind when he promised to care for her his entire life

The 83-year-old man was too weak to be transported by ambulance to be with his dying wife, but at the request of the family, the two hospitals worked together to reunite the spouses in their last days.
Floreen and Ed's love story began more than 60 years ago when the two met at a party.
When the young engineer went to Floreen's parents to ask for her hand in marriage, they refused because the young woman was recovering at the time from a horrific car accident, which claimed the life of her first husband, whom she had married only three months earlier.
But Ed was determined to be with Floreen and would not take 'no' for an answer, declaring to his future in-laws that he was willing to carry his beloved in his arms every day.   
The couple said 'I do'' May 12, 1953, and settled in Batavia, New York, in a home designed by Mr Hale. The Hales had two surviving children, Renee and Ricky. A third baby died in infancy. 

Ed's greatest joy in life was pampering his wife and spoiling her with little tokens of affection
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