Elderly wife dies within days of husband’s death after car park accident
A DEVOTED couple passed away within a week of each other after the husband died following a collision in a Chipping Norton car park.
David Mond said his mother Phyllis “gave up” after losing husband of 65 years Nathaniel, known as Peter.
She was 92. Great-grandfather Mr Mond, 96, was knocked over by a reversing Ford Ka at the Co-op, Albion Street on Thursday, April 4. The retired GP died at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital on Wednesday, April 17, and his wife, who had dementia, passed away on Tuesday.
They retired to Charlbury in the mid-1970s. He moved to Chipping Norton when she went into Beech Haven Care Home eight years ago. Mr Mond said: “It seems to us that although her response wasn’t at all obvious, when we told her, she just decided to give up.”
The couple will now be buried together at a date to be announced.
The retired GP died at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital on Wednesday, April 17, and his wife, who had dementia, passed away on Tuesday. 
They retired to Charlbury in the mid-1970s. He moved to Chipping Norton when she went into Beech Haven Care Home eight years ago. Mr Mond said: “It seems to us that although her response wasn’t at all obvious, when we told her, she just decided to give up.”