current events firegeezer on 23 Jun 2008 12:13 pm
Always Together
JOHN AND MARY SCARDUZIO OF EAST GOSHEN, PENNSYLVANIA, always did everything together. In their 70 years together as man and wife they were never apart except while John was tending his occupation as a tavern-keeper.
After he retired in 1977, they spent 6 months of the year at their beach cottage in Wildwood and the other six months at their long-time home in East Goshen.
When Mary, 91, had to be admitted to a rehabilitation center last year to recover from a broken hip, she and John, 97, moved into a retirement home while she was treated and they decided to stay there.
Early this month on June 5 Mary suffered a major stroke and went to the hospital where she died four days later at 2:10 am on June 9. After learning of his wife’s death, John’s health deteriorated rapidly and he died the same day at 2:10 pm, exactly 12 hours after Mary’s passing.
Their son John A. Scarduzio told the Daily Local News:
Mary was the more vocal of the pair, often ordering food for both of them and leading him places, saying “Let’s go, John.”
“Everyone was saying that after she died and went up to heaven, she probably was saying, ‘Let’s go, John’, just like she did when they were living,” Scarduzio said.
“I think it was a combination of age and the fact that they were so inseparable for so many years,” Scarduzio said. “But I honestly don’t believe they could have lived without each other.”
Read the entire, sweet story with this touching ending HERE.
