Elderly UK Couple Die in Garden after Suffering Separate Falls
A British couple in their 80s, together since their schooldays, died in their garden on the same day this summer after suffering separate falls, according to a coroner's report.
Tony Williams, 86, stumbled while spraying weedkiller in his garden during a June heatwave, breaking several ribs.
His wife Faith, 87, came rushing to help, but also fell in the garden in Welsh St Donats, south Wales.
Daughter Ruth, unable to contact her parents, alerted a neighbor who found them lying meters from each other, Tony with a cushion beneath his head, his wife by his side.
"It's a very, very sad set of circumstances and all so unnecessary -- just because dad was determined to try to spray some rather inaccessible weeds while it was dry weather," she said.
She said the pair were childhood sweethearts who had been a "great team over 70 years."
Source: Agence France Presse
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