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Couple dies just a few hours apart at nursing home

By Rebecca Mabry
Saturday July 12, 2008

Delmar and Laverne Grieser died hours apart on July 8.

FISHER – Alzheimer's disease had begun to cloud and confuse the mind of a petite little woman named Laverne Hinton Grieser when she was in her 70s.

And as the disease took away Laverne's independence, her husband, Delmar, needed help. First a grown daughter moved home. Later they had to move Laverne into an Alzheimer's unit at a nursing home in Clinton, Ind., not far over the state line from Paris.

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