(ChurchLeaders) After a 73-year marriage based on love and faith, Wanda and Jim Wold of Garner, Iowa, died hours apart last week. Family members say they’re comforted by knowing that God had a hand in the couple’s July 20 deaths.
Wanda Wold, 96, died early in the morning at Concord Care Center, where she had previously worked as a registered nurse. Hours later, Jim Wold, 94, died in the same nursing home, soon after learning that his wife had passed away.
Wanda and Jim Wold—‘God Was Up to Something’
In a Facebook post last Tuesday evening, Dan Engstler, one of the couple’s nine grandchildren, posted a tribute to his grandparents. “God was up to something today,” he writes, “calling them both to heaven 15 hours apart.”