Just months away from their 53rd anniversary, an elderly Washington couple died of COVID-19 — on the same day. On March 13, Merle and Delores Tofte became the second and third people to test positive for the rapidly spreading virus in Clark County, NBC-affiliate KGW8 reports.
They were 85 and 86, respectively. In a heart-wrenching Facebook post shared by daughter Michelle Nusom Taylor, she wrote: “They died within hours of one another.” “I am in quarantine until March 26th.
I can’t be with my loved ones. I can’t comfort my children, who have just lost their grandparents,” she continued. “I can’t hold a service for my parents or attend their burial. … I wanted time and privacy to grieve but if their story can save a life, it needs to be