A couple who had been married for 60 years before being gunned down in the El Paso mass shooting were mourned by family and friends as “the most loving, humble and giving people you could ever meet.”

Raul Flores, 83, and Maria Flores, 77, who had met across the border in Juárez, Mexico, moved back from California to the Texas city to retire, according to The Guardian.

On Aug. 3, Patrick Crusius, 21, allegedly killed the couple, along with 20 other people, with an assault rifle at a Walmart. More than two dozen others were wounded in the attack.

“They were the most loving, humble and giving people you could ever meet,” said Raul Flores Jr., one of the couple’s three children. “They had so much love in them and for each other that God probably decided to take them together.”

The Rev. Fabian Marquez, who officiated the funeral Mass at St. Stephen Catholic Church, met the couple’s family at a reunification center set up after the attack for relatives seeking information about their loved ones.

“Telling them that their parents died was the most difficult thing I ever had to do as a priest in my 15 years,” Marquez said. “The attack by a stranger who came to the city and took out the lives of loving people affected not only this family, but the entire city.”

Family friends Sandra McNeil and Irene Valenzuela said the couple was devoted to their children and grandchildren.

“They were the sweetest, nicest, loving and welcoming people you could ever know,” McNeil said. “Their ear-to-ear smiles were genuine. They were the kind of people who would hug you when they greeted you.”

The family’s written tribute described how the two met in Juárez.

“Raul was a tailor at a local shop where he first laid eyes on Maria. He would make sure he was outside sweeping when Maria would walk down the sidewalk,” it said.

“He tried getting her attention by asking her: ‘Te cepillo el pelo? [Shall I brush your hair?]’ as he motioned with the broom.” Eventually he “swept her off her feet,” the family said.

After the Mass, mariachis played traditional Mexican songs like “Amor Eterno” (“Eternal Love”) as the mourners led the twin caskets to a pair of hearses for cremation.