A Missouri couple identifiedas Jack and Harriet Morrison held each other's hands on Saturday, January18, and died hours apartafter being married for 65 years

The couple breathed their last breath at nursing home in Arnold, Missouri. St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

It gathers that Jack (86) died at 3.34am while his wife (83) breathed her last several hours later at 11.53pm.

The couple went on their first date on the Halloween of 1955 and got married on May 5, 1956

Their neice Sue Wagener,who expressed sadness over the death of the couple, said they became inseparable since their first date