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Baitball Blogger

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Wed Mar 19, 2014, 10:44 AM Mar 2014

Husband and wife die of heart attacks within 15 minutes of each other

In more than four decades of married life, Tom Shirley, a former state game warden, explored the Everglades — and more distant locales — with his wife Naomi at his side.

Saturday, the couple embarked on their final adventure together. They died separately at the same hospital, 15 minutes apart, unknown to each other.

Tom Shirley, 83, was taken to the Cleveland Clinic with heart problems Saturday afternoon. Naomi Shirley, 75, succumbed to a heart attack herself after being summoned from their Southwest Ranches home for what doctors said may be a last visit with her husband.

"On her way to the hospital, she passed away with a heart attack," said their son, Troy. His father had died about 15 minutes earlier.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/fl-game-warden-dies-20140318,0,5500455.story

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Husband and wife die of heart attacks within 15 minutes of each other (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Mar 2014 OP
My mother had a heart attack back in 1989 and my dad had one while in sinkingfeeling Mar 2014 #1
I'm so sorry. Baitball Blogger Mar 2014 #2

sinkingfeeling

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1. My mother had a heart attack back in 1989 and my dad had one while in
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:07 AM
Mar 2014

the ER waiting room with her. Mom survived and went on to have bypass surgery, but sadly, my dad died after being admitted to the hospital.

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