He would write long letters to her from overseas, telling her he was 'awful glad to hear from her.' When Trent finally proposed, he wanted so badly for her to be his wife that he decided to ask her while she was brushing her teeth, because how could she say no with a toothbrush in her mouth?ĭolores and Trent Winstead in their early years. It was the early-1950s - just before Trent left for the war - when they began dating. For more than six decades, Dolores and Trent remained side by side. The Nashville couple had been together for nearly 64 years, through Trent's service in the Korean War, the birth of two children, three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. 'I don't know what I would do without him,' she said.
The 88-year-old man's kidneys had begun to fail, he hadn't eaten in days and his blood pressure was sinking.Īs Trent Winstead's condition deteriorated, and before Dolores fell ill beside him, the 83-year-old woman spoke softly to her daughter. Dolores Winstead was mostly silent as she stood by her husband's hospital bed earlier this month, cupping his hand in both of hers.
