robert, from los angeles, had four children from a previous marriage when he met helen through friends in the early 1960s...

"as soon as she saw him," said tamara nunley, r.n., "you could see her perk up."..

his heart, beating for 84 years and full of love for the woman he affectionately called his "blue-eyed guera [pronounced whedda]," felt like it was failing..