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Jack and Dorothy Urie’s love story began 68 years ago. It ended last week with their deaths just three days apart.

When they are buried later this month at Pinecrest Cemetery, the couple will share the same box – though their children insisted on a divider to separate the ashes “to keep them from bickering,” joked Alison Banbury, their youngest daughter.

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“They were known to us as ‘The Bickertons,’ ” she added, laughing. “That’s how we knew they were doing all right. But they adored each other.”

Dorothy went first, at age 90, of sudden and unexpected kidney failure just a few hours after being admitted to the Montfort Hospital on Sunday, Feb. 22. Her daughter, Jan Snell, and a grandson had just left the hospital for dinner when five minutes later they got a call from the nurse. Dorothy was gone.

I think he just willed himself to go

“It was one of those things — they don’t want you to be there,” said Alison, who was racing back from Florida at the time.