Doris and Sherwood People (Credit: The Pope family) COATS, N.C. - Brian Pope, 57, said his parents were so inseparable it wasn’t surprising they died holding hands in the hospital after suffering from COVID-19."They never went to bed mad at each other," Brian told FOX Television Stations Tuesday.
The couple was married for 61 years.Sherwood Pope, 82, and his wife, Doris, 78, died Dec. 14 at a Raleigh, North Carolina hospital.
Brian said his parents got sick more than a week before their deaths. He said he had no idea how they contracted the coronavirus.
Health experts are advising against travel this holiday season as COVID-19 cases surge throughout the U.S."When they went out, they wore their masks," Brian added.