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Joseph Stuart Routledge (Stuart), 74, was with his wife Lucy on a bus when the earthquake struck.
Bricks and debris fell onto the bus and both died instantly.
Friend Verna Redmond described the couple as beautiful and said one could not have survived without the other.
The childhood sweethearts were from Britain and married in 1961, when they were both aged 24.