(FOX 2) - A metro Detroit couple married more than 70 years passed away within just hours of each other, something their son calls a blessing.
The two were never apart until this pandemic hit and, sadly, were not able to spend their final days together. A couple from West Bloomfield, Mich., separated after 70 years of marriage due to the pandemic, died within hours of each other. "They never saw it in each other's eyes, the pain of dying," their son Marc Shindler said of his 92- and 91-year-old parents, Lester and Lillian Shindler. "They went together." The couple met in high school and Lester bought Brody's Camp Supplies and custom printing in 1969. "My father was a legend.