SALT LAKE CITY — A funeral service has been set for a Salt Lake City couple who died within a few hours of each other after being married for 74 years.

Madelyn Yensen died April 7 after suffering a seizure, while her husband, Marcus, died of heart failure about five hours later the same day. She was 94, and he was 95.

The two married on Oct. 17, 1940, only a month after they met when he took a dance lesson from her at a studio. They had lived since 1949 in a quaint, brick home where they raised their three children.

Daughter Carol Bradford said her father always insisted her mother should die at home with proper care. Bradford went to see him just after her mother’s death.

“I leaned over and whispered in his ear, ‘Mom has passed, and she’s waiting for you in heaven.’ I think after that, he knew he had accomplished what he needed, and he felt that he could let go,” she said.

“They were always together, and they were always very happy with each other,” she added.