Eighty-eight-year-old Gene Warrington and his 86-year-old wife, Pat, died Dec. 27 in Findlay, The Advertiser-Tribune in Tiffin (http://bit.ly/1BysPGQ) reported. Phil Warrington, the son of Gene and Pat, said his parents had been in hospice with health issues, and the day before their deaths, they spent time together in Pat's room. "He said 'life's not going to be fun anymore,'" the son told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Warrington said his father died and his mother died eight hours after him. "You could have almost predicted it," said their son, Phil. "They did everything in their life together. They were never apart." Gene and Pat met in junior high school and wed secretly as teenagers while he was home from boot camp before leaving for World War II. "He told me that when he came back from war, he knew he never wanted to be away from her again," Phil Warrington said. Warrington said they loved spending time with their seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Phil Warrington said his father recognized that Pat was in critical condition and did not have long to live.
– It's another uncanny story about an elderly couple dying just hours apart: In this case, 88-year-old Gene Warrington died on Dec. 27, and his wife of 69 years, Pat, followed eight hours later, reports the Advertiser-Tribune of Tiffin, Ohio. Both had been in hospice, and son Phil tells AP that Gene visited his 86-year-old wife a few days before their deaths, held her hand, and realized she was near death. "He said, 'Life's not going to be fun anymore.'" Phil Warrington thinks his dad willed himself to die because "they did everything in their life together—they were never apart." (Two sisters who were 90-year-old twins died on Christmas Day.)