85-Year-Old Man Took Marriage Vow, Then Died
ROME, Jan. 31 (Recd. 11pm).— Eighty-five-year-old Alessandro Urban! and 82-year-old Tommasina Sclaver were married in Florence last night—the man lying weakly in a hospital bed and his white-haired bride sitting on a chair beside him. As the pries- finished the ceremony . . . “till death do you part,” Urbani whispered: “I do.” Then he died, and the bride had tn be carried home in a state of collapse.- Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 February 1950, Page 5
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