Posted
11/28/2004 04:20:00 PM
by Douglas
This could be the sweetest story every told. Or perhaps, the
saddest.Relatives say Gracie Jackson's wish was always that she and her husband J.C., the love of her life for seven decades, would go to heaven holding hands.
On Thanksgiving Day, her wish came true.
J.C. Jackson, 97, died of congestive heart failure about 2:30 a.m. Thursday at a nursing home in this Fort Worth suburb. Twenty hours later, Gracie Jackson, 88, joined her husband of 69 years, dying of pneumonia.
The family insists J.C. Jackson did not go to heaven 20 hours sooner than Gracie.
Wow. What a tragically beautiful happy ending.