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SEATTLE - By all accounts, Aurlo Bonney should have been the first to die.
Once a formidable middle school principal, he had a series of strokes over the last few years. The last one, in March, stole the 92-year-old's final vestiges of independence, trapping him in bed and robbing him of his once clear and confident voice. But Virginia, his wife of 65 years, was in relatively good physical health. It was her mind that was losing ground to Alzheimer's disease. But even as her past and future faded around her, Aurlo remained at the heart of her life, crystal clear.
