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âTrue love storyâ: South Georgia couple married 61 years die hours apart from COVID-19
âTrue Love Storyâ: Quitman couple married 61 years die hours apart from COVID-19 By WCTV Staff | January 14, 2021 at 10:41 AM EST - Updated January 14 at 10:57 AM
QUITMAN, Ga. (WCTV) - A Brooks County couple married for 61 years will be laid to rest Saturday after they died from COVID-19 on the same day.
After nearly a lifetime together, William James and Jeanette Davis Gloster were inseparable, even until death.
The Glostersâ only child, Antoinette âShawnâ Linder, and her husband, Stacy, shared their story with on Wednesday.
William, 97, and Jeanette, 94, met in their thirties, Shawn said, when William walked by Jeanette every day as she stood on her front porch.