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St. Augustine couple of 64 years dies from COVID-19 Updated:  Tags:  ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A married couple who’ve lived in St. Augustine their entire lives passed away from COVID-19 complications within five days of each other. The children of Roger and Betty Colee said they wouldn’t have been happy living without one another. “We expected they were going to get better and come home,” said Cheryl Reese, daughter. " Never did we expect they would not come home. We didn’t feel like they were that sick when they went in, but that’s what COVID does.” As cars go by on San Jose R...

Even as they died, Roger and Betty Colee were still inseparable in a way.  They were in different rooms but located near each other at Flagler Hospital, both struggling after being diagnosed with COVID-19. And when Roger died, Betty followed him in death just five days later.  They were both 83 years old, and the Colees loved being out on the town ― especially to make their rounds at their usual spots such as Chick-fil-A, where employees still remember how Betty liked her eggs, family said. And they loved being together. “From the time they got out of bed for breakfast. … the onl...