A Michigan couple who were married for 56 years died on the same day within hours of each other on March 6.
Will and Judy Webb, both 77, were battling illnesses and their daughter said they spent two months in separate hospitals in the lead-up to them passing away.
The story has led to the duo being compared to characters in the 2004 movie, The Notebook.
Will and Judy Webb, both 77, died within hours of each other on March 6 in a Michigan hospice
The couple held hands during their final hours and Judy rubbed her husband's hand as he died
The Michigan couple were married 56 years and the husband's illness mirrored his wife's
In December, Judy had a procedure that 'didn't go well', daughter MaryBeth said. She almost died due to infection on New Year's Eve and was transported to Henry Ford Hospital.
'My dad — seeing her like that — it was too much for him,' their daughter told News Herald about the printer-turned-beverage distributor. 'From that point on, everything that happened to her happened to him in a different place.
'She spiked a fever, he spiked a fever. She started getting congestion, he got pneumonia. She got a reaction from a medication called metabolic encephalopathy, then he turned around and that's what he had.'
The feelings of illness were made worse by Judy being apart from the man she'd been with for decades. They missed their anniversary for the first time in 13 years during that period, MaryBeth told WXYZ.
