Six Children Orphaned When Their Dad Dies Hours After Their Mom

From Cosmopolitan

This is heartbreaking.

WHNT reports on six children who were orphaned when their mother and father died within hours of each other.

Jennifer Norsworthy, 40, of Huntsville, Alabama, was pronounced dead on Friday after a blood clot formed in her sleep, and her husband, Toby Norsworthy, 38, died of a heart attack in his sleep the following Sunday. The couple had six children together - three of them from Jennifer's previous marriage and three together.

"Toby loved Jennifer," said their friend, Ricky Self. "She was his world and so he was of course heartbroken when she passed away."

The couple met 13 years ago in a Yahoo chatroom and began a new life together. They often posted loving messages to each other on Facebook about how much they loved each other and being married.

Jeanne Norsworthy, Toby's aunt, believes he died of a broken heart. "Jennifer Norsworthy was his soul mate and his heart broke when she passed,' she wrote on Facebook. "They are together again.'"

Family and friends are traveling to stay with the kids and a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to raise money for them.

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