Couple Married Over 70 Years Dies One Hour Apart Holding Hands [VIDEO]

The triumph of love is amazing. Seventy two years of marriage in an impressive feat. This Iowa couple created a love story that everyone should read. Surrounded by their family, Norma and Gordon Yeager, both in their nineties, passed away holding hands within one hour of each other.

"It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn't figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going, But we were like, "he isn't breathing, how does he still have a heart beat?" And she checked and everything and said that's because they were holding hands and it's going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up. They were still getting her heartbeat through him," Sheets says.

At 4:38 pm, exactly one hour after Gordon, Norma passed, too.

"Neither one of them would've wanted to be without each other. I couldn't figure out how it was going to work. We were very blessed, honestly, that they went this way. They just loved being together."

At their funeral, Norma and Gordon held hands in their casket.

Norma was 90, and Gordon was 94.

Story by Emily Price, CNN via KSLA