Husband and Wife Die 16 Hours Apart, After 76 Years Together. That's True Love

Cleda and Frell Blair (Courtesy of the Blair Family)

Seventy-six years ago, Cleda and Rosemond "Frell" Blair vowed never to part. They kept their word, even in death. Just sixteen hours after Cleda, 95, passed away last Wednesday in an Idaho retirement home, Rosemond, 94, died as well.

"They were together constantly," the couple's son, 68-year-old Boyd Blair, said. "They were inseparable in life and I guess also inseparable in a better place."

As high school students in Lewiston Utah, they fell in love and later married. Their romance survived a World War, and spawned 2 children, 12 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. Frell, a World War II veteran and mechanic, built a home in Oregon for his wife and growing family when he returned from the Pacific Isles in 1946. In recent years, they relocated to an Idaho retirement community to be closer to their family.

Frell and Cleda Blair as a young couple. (Courtesy of Legacy.com)

 

Cleda endured a long battle with breast cancer, while caring for her husband whose health was also failing. Their son Boyd said just before his mother died at 12:30 AM last week, his father took her hand in his and wept. Hours later he followed in her path.




This is "real" love! They just couldn't stay apart!

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