Dave Molter and his wife Corrine married 60 years ago, and he was worried about what he would do if she died or he had to put his ailing wife in a home because he could no longer care for her. A caretaker came to the couple's home three times a week to check on the elderly couple. When Brandy Williams made her scheduled stop on Monday, no one answered the door. She broke down the door to the home, and she found the couple side by side dead.
This sounds like a scene out of a movie. A couple died side by side on the big screen in "The Notebook." This is not the scene out of some movie though. Dave Molter never left his wife's side. When she would go out for a walk, he would allow her to leave and then follow behind in a car. He would drive far enough back so his wife would not see him tailing her. Every waking moment of his life was spent with Corrine, and now they will be together forever.
Williams was heartbroken by the loss of the couple. The three had already made plans to spend Thanksgiving together. She wanted to know that the couple did not struggle. She stayed on with the couple even after her employer asked her to take on other clients. She spoke out about the couple in an interview with a local South Carolina affiliate. She said the following:
Friends and neighbors of the couple will miss seeing Dave and Corrine. The entire neighborhood kept an eye out on Corrine because the residents feared she would wander into the lake on one of her walks. Dave built the couple's home in Lake Wylie himself. The couple's home was one of the first in the South Carolina neighborhood. Dave and Corrine leave behind a daughter and a son. A friend of the pair, Wray Moxley, said the following about their passing:
"It's almost fitting I guess that the two of them are going to be together forever. He really loved her. We all knew if something ever happened, he'd take care of her."
Dave and Corrine's story is touching hearts right now, but it is not the only story of an elderly couple dying together to happen this year. An elderly couple in San Diego died only hours apart in February. Ed and Floreen Hirsch married over 60 years like Dave and Corrine. Ed was hospitalized with a leg injury, but he did not want to be away from his wife. His family worked to bring them together, and they were put into the same hospice room in beds side by side. Ed would check on his wife every 30 minutes. He died 36 hours after her.
An Iowa couple died only an hour apart after a car accident sent them to the hospital in 2011. Gordon and Norma were married 72 years, and they made it a rule to do everything together. They even died that way, and they were holding hands at the time of their deaths.
The only difference between these stories and Dave and Corrine's is the fact that he died trying to give his wife CPR. However, it is really not known what happened in the couple's final moments. He might have died after her naturally. The coroner of York County has no plans to perform autopsies on the couple. There was nothing suspicious about their deaths. They died side by side, and they are still together.
