Long Island Couple Married 70 Years Dies Just Hours Apart
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A Long Island couple married for 70 years died just hours apart at their assisted living residence.
The children of Ruth and William Bauer said their 92-year-old mother died around 7 a.m. Monday in Glen Cove. The family says 97-year-old William passed away 11 hours later.
The causes of their deaths weren't provided.
The New York City natives and longtime New Hyde Park residents met in the early 1940s at a bank where they both worked. They married in 1946 after William Bauer returned from serving with the Navy in the Pacific during World War II.
A wake will be held at the Thomas Dalton Funeral Home in New Hyde Park on Thursday and Friday.
A funeral service for the couple is scheduled Friday morning at Notre Dame R.C. Church in New Hyde Park.
They are survived by their three children and five grandchildren.
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