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97-Year-Old Twin Froze To Death While Trying To Save Her Sister

<div><p>Martha Williams and her sister Jean Haley were found by police at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning laying in the driveway outside of their Rhode Island Home. </p><p>Tragically, the 97-year-old twin sisters froze to death after having slipped on the icy driveway the night before. Williams was discovered face down next to her vehicle, while her sister Jean was found in the garage.</p><div><figure><a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/03/06/19/3E04DF7C00000578-4287238-image-m-8_1488829305672.jpg" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/88-1.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/88-1_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/88-1_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/88-1_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/88-1_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/88-1_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center">Twins Martha Williams (left) and Jean Haley (right), are 25-years-old in this photo.<cite><a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/03/06/19/3E04DF7C00000578-4287238-image-m-8_1488829305672.jpg" target="_blank">Associated Press</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Police report that the twins died after they fell outside Haley's home. The overnight temperatures plummeted to as low as 11 degrees with wind chills as low as minus eight. </p><p>Investigators think that Martha fell while getting out of her car, and Haley tripped over a rug on her way to phone for help. </p><div><figure><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=960&amp;quality=100" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_1050px.jpg 1050w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_1150px.jpg 1150w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_1250px.jpg 1250w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_1350px.jpg 1350w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_1450px.jpg 1450w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_1550px.jpg 1550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478_GH_content_1630px.jpg 1630w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center">Martha Williams (left) with her twin sister Jean Haley. <cite><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nintchdbpict000307054478.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=960&amp;quality=100" target="_blank">Associated Press</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>The twins had just returned home from dinner on Friday night with their 89-year-old sister. Sometime, before the women fell, the younger sister had left to return home.</p><p>Although the cause of death has not been determined, investigators believe that no foul play was involved and that the extreme cold temperatures may have been a factor.</p><p>No one knows what could have been going through their minds in those final moments, but at the very least, they were together in the end. </p><p>[Source: <a href="http://turnto10.com/news/local/barrington-elderly-twin-sisters-dead-after-spending-night-in-the-cold">TurnTo10</a> \ <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4287238/Pictured-97-year-old-twins-froze-death.html?ito=social-facebook">Daily Mail</a> &nbsp;] </p></div>

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