Betty and John Ware met in high school as teenagers. They married shortly after, lived an unassuming but full life spent mainly in Guelph, raising their three sons.
Betty and John were married for 68 years.
Last winter John got COVID and died four days later. Thirteen days later, COVID also took Betty.
But their story, as sad as the end might have been, wasn't one of tragedy and loss, it was one of love.
“They were inseparable their entire lives,” said their son Tom. “They were always together.”
Until the very end.
The family wanted to use the story to highlight the seriousness of COVID at a time when people were really only coming to terms with the importance of being vaccinated.
"In just 13 days our lives changed completely. We are heartbroken, and devastated to have lost both to COVID 19," said grandaughter Kristen Ware.
As a couple in their 80s, Betty and John would be near the top of the list to be vaccinated and if there hadn’t been an interruption in vaccine delivery, they very well would have already been vaccinated.
“If things had gone the way they were supposed to they probably would have made it,” Tom says.
“But there’s no point dwelling on that now.”
