virus. The couple, from Auchtermuchty, Fife, ran a business together and were committed Christians who served in ministry together.
Tragically they caught Covid together, and suffered together in a shared a hospital room at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. When John died in front of May she made the heartbreaking decision to refuse her own treatment.
Singing Amazing Grace, 12 hours after her husband passed away, May also died. Last week they were laid to rest together. May Cropley was the daughter of Tommy Townsend and his wife Cathy from Glasgow.
With only one older brother, Gordon, she moved to Portsmouth as a teenager where her dad served as a chaplain in the Royal Navy.