breakfast every morning even after 70 years of
marriage have died 15 hours apart.
Helen Felumlee, of Nashport, died at 92 on April 12.
Her husband, 91-year-old Kenneth Felumlee, died
the next morning.
The couple's eight children say the two had been
inseparable since meeting as teenagers, once
sharing the bottom of a bunk bed on a ferry rather
than sleeping one night apart, the Zanesville Times Recorder reported.
They remained deeply in love until the very end,
even eating breakfast together while holding
hands, said their daughter, Linda Cody.
"We knew when one went, the other was going to
go," she said.
According to Cody, about 12 hours after Helen died, Kenneth looked at his children and said,
"Mom's dead."
He quickly began to fade and was surrounded by
24 of his closest family members and friends when
he died the next morning.
"He was ready," Cody said. "He just didn't want to leave her here by herself.
"
The pair had known each other for several years
when they eloped in Newport, Ky., across the Ohio
River from Cincinnati, on Feb. 20, 1944. At two days
shy of his 21st birthday, Kenneth was too young to
marry in Ohio.
"He couldn't wait," son Jim Felumlee said.
Kenneth worked as a railroad car inspector and
mechanic before becoming a mail carrier for the
Nashport Post Office.
He was active in his Nashport-
Irville United Methodist Church as a Sunday school
teacher. Helen stayed at home, not only cooking and
cleaning for her own family but also for other
families in need in the area.
She taught Sunday
school, too, but was known more for her greeting
card ministry, sending cards for birthdays,
sympathy and the holidays to everyone in her community, each with a personal note inside.
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