Ohio couple, both 100 years old and married 79 years, die just hours apart

HAMILTON, Ohio — A Butler County man and lady who spent most of their lives collectively, married for 79 years, ended up dying simply hours aside final week.

Frances June and William “Hubert” Malicote each had been 100 years outdated once they died, in line with their obituaries. Hubert Malicote died at 9:15 p.m. on Nov. 30 and June Malicote died at 5:40 p.m. on Dec. 1.

“As laborious because it was, you can simply really feel their connection to one another and that they couldn’t, they simply couldn’t be with out the opposite. It was that easy,” Jo Malicote, the couple’s daughter, tells Dayton247now.com. “Life was not going to go on with out the opposite. So how good that they need to go primarily go collectively.”

Members of the family inform the Dayton Every day Information the couple had been doing OK however June as a result of critically sick on the evening of Thanksgiving. June was taken to a hospice care facility.

June’s failing well being was an excessive amount of for Hubert, who “broke down,” Sam Malicote, 76, the couple’s son, tells the Every day Information.

Hubert was admitted to hospice quickly after June and the couple shared a room collectively earlier than their deaths.

The couple met in 1941 and had been married in 1943, in line with their obituaries. Whereas Hubert served within the Navy throughout World Struggle II, June labored in a manufacturing facility constructing torpedo elements.

After the battle, the couple settled in Hamilton and Hubert labored at Diebold Inc. for 50 years, retiring in 1990 as a store supervisor.

The couple are survived by three youngsters, seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

“I really feel unhappy, however I shouldn’t,” Sam Malicote tells the Every day Information. “Who can count on to reside a life like that? They lived a protracted, comfortable life collectively they usually had been dedicated to God and the household.”