“They used to cry a lot if they ever had to spend time apart,” explained their daughter.
Victor and Elsie Bower were teenage sweethearts from Sheffield. They were married in 1954.
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They died last month, just nine days apart, after spending 65 years of their lives together.
Victor, 82, died of cancer on 8 February, after being diagnosed in 2009. Elsie, 80, had been in hospital with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She died on 17 February, from, her family said, a "broken heart".
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On Monday, they went to their rest in a double-sized coffin, still holding hands.
"They were always together. They used to cry a lot if they ever had to spend time apart," their daughter Sharon Bower, 54, told The Star in Sheffield ahead of the service at Grenoside Crematorium.
She added: "They lived together and died together, so it was only right they went together too."
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"To me it didn't seem right to have separate coffins when all Elsie wanted to be was by the side of Victor," said Michael Fogg, the funeral director.
He added: "I thought, 'What can I do ... to support a couple that even death couldn't keep apart?'"
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