In an example of the art imitating life, California couple Floyd and Vanessa Hartwig died on February 11, just five hours apart.

But physically, they were together on their deathbeds with their three grown up children pushing their beds together on the day of their departure from earth.

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The couple got married on Aug. 16, 1947 and had four children, Donna, Scharton, Carol and Kenneth, reports ABC.

They met in grammar school and had a relationship when Floyd returned after a six-year stint in the Navy.

They raised the family in a ranch in Easton, California, with Lloyd working as a delivery man for an egg and then a feed company.

She took care of the kids as well as the needs of her husband like preparing his breakfast at 4:30 a.m. daily.

The children recalled that their mother sewed a lot of their clothes and house items, participated in PTA meetings and loved to spend her spare time doing crossword puzzles.

Every morning, when Floyd left for work, they kiss each other goodbye.

Her pet name for her husband was "Blondie", taken after the color of his hair.

In their twilight years, Vanessa suffered from dementia and during the 2014 Christmas holidays, the children noticed her health deteriorated fast.

It was about the same time that they learned Floyd had a kidney failure and was given by his doctor two weeks to live.

Scharton recalls their final moments, "We said 'it's getting close' so we pushed the hospital beds together as far as we could. We put their hands together, and my dad died holding my mom's hand.  Mom was not coherent, but we told her that dad had passed away and that he was waiting for her. She died two hours later."

The 2004 hit movie "The Notebook" also featured a young couple during the 1940s, portrayed by Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. 

The older man was played by James Garner and the woman by Gena Rowlands. Like the Hartwigs, the woman developed dementia and the old couple died in bed together.

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