Couple, married 75 years, pass away hours apart

This story may seem sad, but it is an attesment to the dedication this couple had for each other. It’s something you don’t see every day.

Tuesday afternoon, 100-year-old J.C. Cox and his and 96-year-old wife Josie were buried together.

The couple — married for 75 years — died within five hours of each other.

Their story begins on Christmas Day in 1932.

“She was telling me they went up to a pastor’s door and knocked on the door,” said Lesha Grimm, one of the Cox’s granddaughters. “He didn’t marry them, so they went to another pastor’s house.”

Persistence never left them. They kept their wedding vows for 75 years, through the deaths of their own children, the lives of three new generations and the inevitable changes in each other.