A devoted couple died within 72 hours of each other after never spending a day apart in their 68 year marriage.
Former beauty queen Brenda and Terrance Studd said it was love at first sight when they met, aged 15, in 1953.
They married aged 16 and defied the odds to spend 68 besotted years together.
The pair never went a day without seeing each other - and only spend a few nights apart when Terrance fell of a bucking bronco at the fair and had to stay in hospital.
The childhood sweethearts from Loughborough, Leicestershire, died within three days of each other, both aged 83.
Great gran Brenda passed away after contracting Covid-19 on September 27, and Terrance from pancreatic cancer on September 30.
Terrance never spoke again after hearing of his wife's death.
Daughter Julie Mccluney, 60, said: "Dad just gave up after mum died.
“They couldn’t live without each other.
“They were just childhood sweethearts that loved each other very very much."
“She added: "They were never never separate - only if they had to go to hospital.
“Dad had to be in hospital for three months to save his leg after falling off a bucking bronco at the fair when I was about 17.
“That’s the longest they were ever apart.
“They were just happy and contented to love the simple things in life, like each other, dancing, eating out, opera and bingo."
Brenda fell in love with Terrance after seeing him playing in a band at school and "all the girls were after him".
She followed him to the shops and was successful at catching his eye.
“Mum was beautiful," said care assistant Julie, a mum of six, also from Loughborough.
“She had been in loads of beauty contests.
“They were so in love."
Terrance went part-time as a mechanic to support Brenda when she was diagnosed with MS after collapsing on a family camping trip to the Isle of Wight around 1970.
He modified their car and caravan to carry Brenda’s wheelchair and they moved into a specially designed bungalow when the children left home around 1980.
Terrance was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer in June 2020 and in September his wife was rushed to hospital with sepsis and tested positive for Covid-19.
Brenda died in hospital and three days later Terrance died at home.
Julie said: “When we told dad she had died he just held my brother Graham’s hand and cried.
“He never spoke again after that.
“Then they sent my mum’s hand print and dad died as I was holding it and sobbing."]
The couple, who had three kids, had a joint funeral on November 5, and their ashes were mixed together, and are due to be scattered in Skegness, where they loved to go on holiday.
“I’m over the moon that they are together," said Julie
“They were 83, met at 15 married at 16 and they brought each other the happiest life.
“They were a very lovely loving couple who gave us a fantastic life."