Candida and Pepe both died in very special circumstances this Sunday, January 22, 2023 in Spain, when they were 89 and 86 years old.
It was the Spanish media ABC which announced the sad news of the death of a couple on Sunday January 22. Only in the heart of the tragedy have some been able to detect a certain form of poetry in view of the circumstances of this death. Indeed Candida Cuervo Gonzalez and José Antonio Garcia Llana, nicknamed Pepe, have been married for 52 years and have spent very little time without each other. The Spanish media reports that the retiree died at 1:30 p.m. in the specialized residence where the couple had been living for some time following the cognitive deterioration from which they both suffered because of their age. Shortly after Candida’s death, Pepe also died at the Central University Hospital of Asturias where he had been transferred earlier in the weekend because of some health problems.
the Pepe’s death came 45 minutes after his wife’s to whom he had been married for 52 years. Death therefore did not separate the couple for very long, a couple originally from the north-west of Spain and having spent their entire lives there, whose members were born in towns about twenty kilometers from each other. the other and married since 1970. Contacted by the Spanish media ABC, one of the nieces of the couple formed by Candida and Pepe explained: “When we called to report the death, the first thing they asked us was if it was an accident. But in reality, it was a curious coincidence, and even a romantic one.”
A very popular couple
This former mechanic married to a housewife was, still according to the Spanish media, very popular in the region. After having lived for years in the district of Teatinos, in Oviedo, it is in this very city that the funeral of the couple will be organized so that their loved ones pay homage to them. Candida and Pepe had no children, but were nevertheless very well surrounded. A death that is always sad, but tinged with a touch of romanticism, like this couple who died of Covid-19 a few minutes apart and holding hands.