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Couple gets married in hospital before husband dies of COVID
JOHN FITZHUGH, WLOX-TV
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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) Jeff Nabors knew COVID-19 would kill him. He was right. However, before he died, he was able to marry his sweetheart of 17 years.
Nabors, 62, of Gulfport had been avoiding the illness for most of the pandemic, but finally tested positive on January 11. He had stage four chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and, even though he recovered from COVID-19, his lungs had seen too much damage.
“I think he was on borrowed time already,” said 53-year-old Sherry Nabors in an interview at her home on Tuesday, almost a month after the couple married.
GULFPORT, Miss. A Mississippi man was able to marry his sweetheart of 17 years just days before dying from COVID-19-related complications.
Jeff and Sherry got engaged in December and had talked about wedding dates before the coronavirus took over their lives.
But as WLOX reports, the couple traded a small chapel wedding for a ceremony in a Memorial Hospital room in Gulfport.
It wasn t what we had in mind, said Sherry Nabors. It was beautiful. It was beautiful and it was so touching and it was so perfect.
The hospital chaplain, Martin Gilliland knew the couple was engaged and suggested that a bedside wedding would be possible.