Based On A True Story

Jenny and Miles were fourteen when they first met in 1947, and they became a storybook couple. The stuff dreams are made of.

Shortly after graduating high school they were married. A year afterward, they had their first of three daughters. Soon after, Miles went to Vietnam but when his tour of duty ended, he returned home without injury and it wasn’t much longer before a second daughter came into their lives. It was a home built on love. Two years later, a third daughter came into the world where Miles remarked, “No man can say I don’t have the best-looking women in the world that love me.”

Jenny and Miles worked hard to provide for all their “girls” and to make sure their daughters had a good education.

Time marched on and the years flew by. His daughters married, had children of their own and blessed Jenny and Miles with many grandchildren.

Then on a night no one suspected, Jenny had complications from a routine surgery and was placed in a hospital and a few days later was under Hospice care. Shortly after that happened, their daughters found Miles collapsed on the floor.

It wasn’t long, after initial treatment, Miles was reunited with Jenny.

One of the daughters, Melanie said, "If you have someone you truly love you should fight for it. They fought for their love every day."

It was like a scene straight out of the film, ‘The Notebook’, a storybook romance -from kissing in the rain, to the movie's iconic last scene in which they both die peacefully holding hands.

For Jenny and Miles, this wasn’t a movie. It was very real for them. After fifty-six years of marriage, Jenny and Miles died within hours of each other, holding hands until their last breath.

And it is stories like these, however sad it may seem, that give hope and reasoning to what love can do for people.

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This is based on a true event that happened recently, March 2nd of this year. Will and Judy Webb died on their 56th wedding anniversary in Michigan, together, and happy.