(ETH) – According to the Christian Post, A 94-year-old man breathed his last breath in an Iowa care center three hours after his wife of 73 years passed away and he prayed to Jesus to take him home too. James Wold and his wife, Wanda, 96, died in the same room that the couple lived in together at Concord Care Center in Garner, Iowa.

When James was told that his wife had gone to be with Jesus, “he folded his hands with both of us on either side and said, ‘Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for taking her and would you please take me,’” the couple’s daughter, Candy Engstler, was quoted as saying. Wanda, who had Alzheimer’s, died at 4 a.m. on July 20 and James passed away at 7 a.m. the same day and in the same care center.

James and Wanda’s marriage was based on faith and love, Engstler said, adding that she believed God “allowed them both to go on the same day.” “I feel it was their time. The Lord called them and He called them in a beautiful way, so I will just hang onto that,” she said.

KCCI reported: “They called me from the nursing home about 4 a.m. and said she had passed,” said Jim and Wanda Wold’s daughter Candy Engstler. She and her sister then went to the nursing home in Garner to be there when his father was told his wife, their mother, had passed away.

“He folded his hands with both of us on either side and said ‘thank you, Jesus. Thank you for taking her and would you please take me,'” Engstler said. Hours later he got his wish. “About 7 (a.m.) I got the call he also passed,” Engstler said.