Shane Peoples, the couple’s son, told WBTV that they spent their entire lives holding hands and that when the final moment was at the door medical staff did what they could to bring them together in the same intensive care room.
Johnny Lee Peoples, 67, and his wife Cathy Darlene, 65, died on September 2 after contracting the COVID-19. The 48-year-old married couple were residents of North Carolina, United States, and parents of three children.
The spouses spent 30 days admitted to the Novant Health Rowan Regional Medical Center, in Salisbur, where they finally lost the battle against this disease that has already claimed the lives of more than 911,000 people in the world.
They died holding hands, four minutes apart. One of his sons, Shane Peoples, told WBTV that in the last week they were both taken to an intensive care room where they were reunited. The disease caused serious damage to their health, but they were able to say goodbye and hold hands until the last moment together, just as they lived during the 50 years they shared.
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Peoples added that the first to show symptoms of COVID-19 was his mother (high fever and loss of taste) and two days later his father. Two weeks later they were both taken to the ICU.
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In the interview, he adds that the medical staff did what they could to reunite them when the end was inevitable. “The next day they were put in the same room, in the same ICU room, they put their hands together, the nurses got together and it was like four minutes apart,” he said.
Johnny was a sergeant in the United States Army and worked for the North Carolina Department of Corrections, while Cathy served in preschool child care, as well as a teaching assistant at Salisbury Academy and a laboratory technician at LabCorp.
They both enjoyed long days fishing and while her husband is passionate about youth sports training and music, she also enjoyed crafts, music, and playing cards.
“Mom and Dad’s lives were stolen by a virus that many joke about on a daily basis or simply believe to be a joke of some kind. They both took this pandemic seriously and still got sick, they still died, “Peoples said in a moving message on Facebook where he called on people to follow safety measures, wear a mask and maintain social distancing.
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