St. Augustine couple of 64 years dies from COVID-19 Updated: Tags: ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A married couple who’ve lived in St. Augustine their entire lives passed away from COVID-19 complications within five days of each other. The children of Roger and Betty Colee said they wouldn’t have been happy living without one another. “We expected they were going to get better and come home,” said Cheryl Reese, daughter. " Never did we expect they would not come home. We didn’t feel like they were that sick when they went in, but that’s what COVID does.” As cars go by on San Jose Road, The Colee’s, both 83, would sit in rocking chairs twice a day and wave outside the home they built in 1986.