He last saw his wife before he was admitted to the hospital with the coronavirus. Days later they both died.

Joseph Dellis and Yolanda Dellis met at a Brooklyn bowling alley nearly 40 years ago. Joseph gave Yolanda some unsolicited advice on wrist technique that would help better her bowling game. After nearly a decade of dating, the two married in the early '90s, becoming inseparable, even as Yolanda was no longer able to walk upstairs to their bedroom because of a years-old hip injury.