direct to your inboxA devoted wife died just five weeks after the coronavirus-related death of her husband of 57 years.Barrie and Margaret Hibbert, both 77, 'couldn't live without each other', their youngest son Mark said.Barrie, who suffered from COPD, died in Fairfield Hospital in Bury on October 25 after testing positive for coronavirus.
Margaret, who suffered from ill health after a fall in June, died in the same hospital on December 2.She had been diagnosed with lymphona of the brain.Son Mark, 55, said: "As mum was being taken to hospital in the ambulance she looked at a picture of my dad and said 'I'm on my way'."They were always together.